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Xdefiant factions2/7/2024 This game leverages Smart Delivery allowing access to both the Xbox One title and the Xbox Series X|S title. Each faction in XDefiant represents a distinct playstyle, offering a range of abilities to suit different preferences and strategies. As a live game, XDefiant will continue to deliver an exhilarating experience season over season, with a wide variety of fresh and fun content. Updated on ApXDefiant, Ubisoft’s upcoming free-to-play first-person shooter, has caught the attention of gamers with its unique blend of intense gunplay, team-based strategies, and diverse factions. Fight in casual matches or climb the tiers in competitive ranked mode.Įvery three months will bring a new season that includes a brand-new Faction, new characters, new maps, new weapons, new cosmetics and events. Play in a diverse range of 14 maps at launch across several different arena and linear modes including Zone Control, Escort, Occupy, and more. Change your Faction at any point during play to adapt to your strategy. Choose any character from any faction to assemble your team of 6 players. Combine any weapon with any Faction, and unlock new options as you play to perfect your playstyle.įactions are drawn from iconic Ubisoft worlds and represent distinct classes, each with unique abilities and Ultras. At launch, XDefiant will feature four factions: Wolves (Tom Clancys Ghost Recon), Echelon (Tom Clancys Splinter Cell), and outcasts and cleaners (Tom. ![]() With cross-play available at launch, you will be able to play with friends on a variety of platforms.Ĭhoose from a large arsenal of weapons, attachments and devices to optimize the way you play. ![]() The Cleaners are a faction of villains from Tom Clancy’s The Divison. Each faction has two different Faction abilities that affect yourself or your teammates, giving you flexibility based on how your match is going. XDefiant is a free-to-play, first-person online arena shooter where you compete in fast-paced clashes. There are currently five Factions in XDefiant.
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![]() ![]() As we talk about Don’t Worry Darling-and the demands on someone who’s acting in, directing, and producing a movie-there’s a nice irony to the fact that she’s blissed out and making a bowl. (When we’ve parted for the day, Wilde texts me a photo she took of me looking bemused at the wheel, along with the winking caption, “Master of her craft.”) Wilde herself is warm, serene, and engaged at the wheel. Our instructor is an artist named Freya, who serves us tea in proper cups and encourages us with phrases like “just squidge it up.” If Freya or Wilde is appalled by my interpretation of an ancient art form, they do not show it. My entire Instagram feed is just, like, people throwing pots.” Soon we’re each seated at pottery wheels with mounds of clay. This is the one thing that I feel completely zen about. ![]() “I’ll go to a Pilates class or dance class and get really competitive. “Everything else in my life, I want to be very good at: work, parenting, friendships, exercise,” she tells me. Wilde is a perfectionist-she ends up being on time-but pottery puts her at ease. Tube strike made getting a car a bit of a clusterfuck but I will be with you by 11:05. She’s running very slightly late, so she texts: “Julie! Hi it’s Olivia! I’m on my way. I asked if we could start our interviews somewhere other than a restaurant, and Wilde gamely suggested this. We talk at a pottery class in North London. If Mirren had known what Wilde went through to make the movie-let alone the nasty surprise that awaited her when she walked on the stage moments later, or the wind tunnel of gossip in store at the Venice International Film Festival in September-she’d have hugged her even harder.
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Ultimate doom visor cut off2/7/2024 ![]() ![]() Swallow, Hathaway, and Fassbinder were each asked to be a part and said they were given total freedom and asked for little in return. ![]() In 2015, Specialized’s marketing department launched a then-unconventional project called Seek and Enjoy. Nevertheless, Swallow, Hathaway, and Fassbinder all said they were shocked to be on the receiving end of such an abrupt change, especially given how long each of them had been with the company. On October 1, David Schriber, formerly with Nike, Burton, and Masterclass, joined Specialized as chief marketing officer. In May, Armin Landgraf (former CEO of Pon.Bike and Canyon Bicycles) was named chief of worldwide markets. In March, company founder Mike Sinyard appointed former Dyson executive Scott Maguire as CEO of the company. Wahoo, Strava, Pearl Izumi, The Pro’s Closet, and Outside are among some that have laid off large percentages of their workforce in the past six months.Īt Specialized, change has been afoot all year, with new appointments to the C-suite happening in close succession. After more than a year of very high demand and often low supply during pandemic, in recent months many brands have cited economic headwinds as cause for significant lay-offs. Specialized is not the only outdoor industry company reconfiguring with the shifting economic landscape. VeloNews reached out to several people at Specialized for details on how the various ambassador programs were being affected and received this statement: “Our social ambassador program is continuing to change with the needs of the rider, but it definitely isn’t going away.” Hathaway said he suspects at least 40 people have been significantly impacted by the program cuts. “I was told nobody’s going to be saying they’re an ambassador for Specialized any more, from someone who gets a bike and gives it back to someone like us who got a salary for being a good representative and providing content,” Hathaway said.Ī post shared by Ty Hathaway exact number is unknown, but Specialized currently has a wide-ranging ambassador program, with athletes like Swallow, Fassbinder, and Hathaway who earn a salary for content creation all the way down to lay people who, through an application process, get deals on equipment and bikes. Other athletes, like Steve Fassbinder and Ty Hathaway, who had similar deals with Specialized, corroborated Swallow’s story. Swallow said she was told that “the global ambassador budget had been cut to 0, that they were eliminating all global ambassadors, and as of last week they were prepared to resign everyone.” However, as of next year, Swallow - along with a handful of other riders - won’t be doing business with Specialized anymore. In fact, the Baja bikepacking trip was just the type of adventure where Swallow would have generated some ‘deliverables,’ like photos and video, for Specialized as part of their agreement. Swallow was one of Specialized’s global ambassadors, a loosely-knit team of cyclists who provide content and other services for the brand in exchange for product and a salary. Last week, Sarah Swallow was bikepacking through a rural stretch of Baja California Sur when she got the call: Specialized was terminating her contract that ran through December 2023, effective immediately.
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![]() Amazon employs their own billing system on these devices, so Google is not involved at all. How will readers be able to buy and read Kindle ebooks going forward? There are basically two ways to do it. Since Google runs their own billing system and owns Android, they will pay zero commissions and everything they make will be pure profit. They have never been the most used bookstore, but this will all changed. Once all of Googles competition have exited their platform, Google Play Books will be the only game in town. They also zeroed out the ability for Barnes and Noble to sell digital content and now Kindle. Google is in a similar situation, they have forced out Audible, the largest audiobook retailer in the world. This audiobook and digital bookstore sell content in the app, and since they own the platform, their commission rates are zero. When Apple basically forced all the major bookstores off their iOS platform, it drove adoption for Apple Books. However, there might be a method to the madness. They have basically made it financially unviable for digital bookstores to exist on their platforms. I think their sheer ruthlessness to what Apple and now Google have done. This is just another barrier, that makes buying ebooks more difficult. In order to read books on your Kindle app for Android, you would need to login to your Amazon account using your computer or mobile internet browser, find a book you want to purchase, buy it and then open the Kindle app and sync it. The Kindle App has basically been transformed to a pure reading app and not as a gateway to make purchases. It is now impossible to buy ebooks using the Kindle app, on any mobile operating system. If Amazon paid Google the 30% of each ebook sold, they would take a loss on every single title, this is why they disabled in-app purchases.īuying ebooks in the Kindle app is a serious blow to readers. This means, the profit for each title sold, is rather small, Amazon sells millions of ebooks a month, so they make lots of money through sheer scale. The purpose of agency pricing is to level the playing field so nobody has a pricing advantage. Publishers only implemented this system in 2015, when Amazon basically set their own prices, took a loss on every title sold, in order to spur Kindle adoption. Major publishers such as Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon and Shuster, Penguin Random House set the prices of an ebook and all retailers have to sell it at that specific price, this is known as agency pricing. Why can’t Amazon just continue to sell books on Android and just pay Google the 30% commission on each title sold? This is because anyone who operates a bookstore and stocks it with digital content from major publishers are acting as an agent for the publisher. Google said it would remove apps that didn’t comply with its billing system rules. This all changed, when Google announced in 2021 that they would start mandating that all apps had to use their billing system by June 1st, 2022. They did this because Google did not actively enforce that everyone uses their own billing system, and this worked really good for around ten years. Amazon then doubled down on their official app for Android. To get around this issue, Amazon developed their K indle Cloud Reader, which was designed to work with Safari and allowed people to buy and read books right in the browser. Since Apple users are more affluent and buy the most content, this was a serious blow. Amazon is the latest company to suspend digital transactions on Android, in recent weeks Audible and Barnes and Noble ceased selling audiobooks and ebooks in their apps.Īmazon pulled the ability to buy digital books in their iOS app back in 2011, when Apple implemented a similar policy, where they forced companies to use their own billing system. Considering Amazon is the largest ebook seller in the world, the paid commission to Google would be staggering. This has happened because Google has now mandated that all apps use their own billing system and will take a 30% cut out of each transaction. ![]() When trying to buy digital books, a new screen is displayed, letting customers know that in order to remain compliment with Google policy changes, buying ebooks is no longer supported. ![]() Amazon has disabled the ability to buy ebooks in the Kindle app for Android.
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Last pass2/7/2024 To login, click on the LastPass icon in your browser. For Chrome and Edge users, click on the symbol that looks like: or in the upper right-hand corner of your browser.ĭetailed instructions can be found at the following link including instructions for Safari users (which is significantly different than the other browsers). Some may have an additional window to click “add” or “continue.”Īfter installing the extension, you will need to pin it to your browser. If you are installing the extension in FireFox, it will ask if you want to add it to your browser. Click on “Add to Chrome”, “Get”, or whatever the button is for your browser. Each of these are different based on which browser you use. The next screen will ask you to install the LastPass browser extension. When you receive the email, it should look like:Ĭlick on “Activate LastPass” and the following screen should ap pear in your browser:Ĭlick on “Install LastPass”. If you have a personal LastPass account, please log out of it before proceeding. Your career account email (not your alias) is what you must use to sign-in to LastPass. So, if you are concerned about trusting your data to a small company with not much revenue and just a couple of employees, that shouldn’t be a concern with GoTo.Within two hours of completing the LastPass request form, you should receive an email from LastPass with your career account email address and activation code. It was previously listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange with annual revenue of over $1 billion. In October 2015, the company was acquired by GoTo (formerly LogMeIn Inc.), one of the leading software as a service (SaaS) companies in the world.įounded almost two decades ago in Budapest (Hungary), GoTo is now a private company with headquarters in the USA. Launched in August 2008 in Boston (Massachusetts, the USA), LastPass has been providing password identity management solutions ever since. But first, let’s go through some background information that will help you decide if you should read further. Note: We’ll cover the other versions of LastPass and their additional features a bit later in this review.
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Boson x apkhere2/6/2024 ![]() SoundSport Wireless earphones (needs beta testers!) Here's a screenshot! Supported headphonesīoson supports all Bose headphones that allow for multiple connections: I believe I understood most of the limitations but I also believe that Bose can't deal with them efficiently due to app bloat and what is likely to be management issues.įrom the complaints I've seen on this subreddit, I think most of you share the sentiment. I was curious about the technical limitations that were causing these issues in the Bose apps. I was also tired of the unreliability of Music finding & connecting to my headphones and randomly logging me out of my Bose account. I got tired of waiting 10 seconds for the Connect/Music apps to open and having to tap into hidden menus to switch devices. control from iPhone while it's connected to MacBook and iPad) I use it for both my QC35 & NC700)Ĭontrol multiple headphones at the same timeĬonnect to and control headphones without disconnecting audio (e.g. ![]() Now that I've finished the main intro, here's what Boson can do that Connect/Music can't:Ĭontrol previous generation and current generation headphones in one app (e.g. There is absolutely no data collection or tracking happening! The app is also designed to be simple and require as few taps as possible. The goal is to make switching between devices fast and reliable, and to not require an internet connection or account sign in. ![]() "Boson", as I've named it, is made to fulfill the main functions of Bose Connect and Bose Music in one app. Bose, the company sells its products throughout the world.īose is best known for its home audio systems and speakers, noise cancelling headphones, professional audio systems, and automobile sound systems.įor the past year I've been working on an alternative Bose app for iOS and I'm happy to say that it's nearing release and that it's now open to beta testers! Introduction
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Super animal royale tips2/6/2024 ![]() You can access the Milestones tab from the Home page and scroll through the many achievements that you can and have accomplished. Most of the unlockables in the game are obtained through Milestone achievements. Milestones are the in-game tracker for achievements in Super Animal Royale. What are Milestones in Super Animal Royale? However, the rarities do make a difference with weapons – each rarity level shows an increase in base damage. Remember, the colours tell the difference of rarity with animals, but it’s all just cosmetic. While most have at least one Legendary subspecies, some stop at Rare, others at Epic, and some skip rarity – like by going from Uncommon to Epic – without having a Rare breed. With animals, not all species have all rarities available in their species pool. There are five different rarity categories in Super Animal Royale, as follows: What rarity does each colour represent? The green background on both weapons represents the Uncommon rarity.Įach animal and weapon is classified into a different rarity class. While there are 360 total breeds – not including DLC – below, you will find a list of the base breeds and the level at which they unlock. While the rarity differs, the animals used are purely an aesthetic choice. There aren’t any advantages or disadvantages to using certain animals. For example, the base Super Fox breed then unlocks Super Maroon Fox, among others. You must unlock the base breeds (the ones shown on the Research Lab tab) to unlock the new breeds. Voila! Now you have an additional animal. To use and create or upgrade animals, scroll to the animal under the Research Tab and confirm the creation. You can unlock the other animals and breeds by collecting and using Super Serum and the specific Animal DNA (for example, Songbird DNA). You start with four breeds: Fox, Bear, Skullcat, and Tiger. Under the Research Lab file, you will find a list of unlocked animals, the upgrades available for each, and the silhouettes of animals unlocked at every ten levels of progress – through to level 80. You can also choose your region and toggle cross-play to play users across systems from this section of the game. Note: kill & win related Milestones and Super Challenges don’t apply in this mode.” If you are infected, your goal is to sabotage their escape. The Bwoking Dead: “Work together as survivors to flee the Zombie Joes and escape the island.Squads: “Reach the top of the food chain by being the last squad of up to four Super Animals to survive the battle royale.”.Duos: “Reach the top of the food chain by being the last pair of Super Animals to survive the battle royale.”.Solo: “Reach the top of the food chain by being the last Super Animal to survive the battle royale.”.The modes are as follows, with the descriptions provided by the game: However, to choose one of the other three modes, click on the box above Play. To play, simply select the Solo mode option. How to choose your mode and begin playing Super Animal RoyaleĪfter the game loads, you will be brought to the Home screen, from which you can access other menus. The left and right analogue sticks are denoted as LS and RS with pressing either being down as 元 and R3. Super Animal Royale controls on PlayStation Mute Player Underneath Mouse Cursor: F5.Switch Weapon (with Mouse): Click Wheel.Creep: Ctrl (Zoom with Sniper or Hunting Rifle).Super Animal Royale controls on PC (Keyboard) Super Animal Royale controls on Nintendo Switch You will take damage should you be outside the safe zone and the gas hits you always stay within the safe zone!īelow you will find all of the Super Animal Royale controls for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox with gameplay tips further down. Beyond the other players, the area of safety shrinks as the Super Skunk Gas encroaches on the land. You are delivered to the map via a giant bird, landing wherever you please (the route is always different). Adding to its popularity: it is free on all major platforms and Steam! 8 What are Milestones in Super Animal Royale?Ī new release from Modus and Pixile Studios, Super Animal Royale has gained popularity quickly for its cute aesthetic and gameplay that pits various animals against each other in a battle royale setting.7 What rarity does each colour represent?.6 How to choose, add, and upgrade animals.5 How to choose your mode and begin playing Super Animal Royale.3 Super Animal Royale controls on PlayStation.2 Super Animal Royale controls on PC (Keyboard).1 Super Animal Royale controls on Nintendo Switch.
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Bomberman dyna blaster flyer2/6/2024 ![]() It starts with easy level to give you the possibility to learn and then. You have bomb that you must use smartly to block your enemy it a determined time. This arcade game starts with the classical kidnapping, just an excuse to start this great headbreaking game. Here it is a very original game that is still a worth downloading and playing: Dynablaster. As outerworldly hero Bomberman, your goal is to drop bombs at the right spots to destroy wall segments and enemies, find extras to increase your bombs fire-range and the amount of bombs you can drop at once. You just have to try out this classic arcade game and find out why everybody in the whole world adores bomberman. The colors are very tastefully arranged, and the game looks and plays very well, and the soundtrack is a very catchy tune that will make you hear bobbing to the sound while playing. While simple, this game is very, very addictive. The main character is very cute, which makes the gameplay even more enjoyable. The game's interface is very cool and simple, but simple is good. This game mixes puzzle and arcade elements, since you have to calculate where to put your bombs and also have to be careful not to get hit by your own weapon. For those unfamiliar, Bomberman is about a cute little guy who has to use his bombs to destroy walls and other obstacles to get to the end of the level, but he can't get there if any of the enemies lurking are still standing. Although the game's title has changed, it is still the same good old game. This classic game is the PC conversion to the smash hit arcade game Bomberman, which made a huge fanbase over the years. All you have to do is stay away from the blast area of your own bombs, and away from the baddies, and only then will you be able to succeed in bringing Dyna to the next, harder level! PC version of the classic Secondly, you may want to get the upgrades that are included in the levels, which consist of timers, upgrades that raise the blast area of your bombs and, also, more bombs that you can place on the playing field. The maze is also crawling with baddies, baddies which need to be destroyed in their entirely in order for you to move to the next level so this is your primary task, destroy the baddies by blasting them to smithereens. Besides these indestructible elements there are also normal bricks that can be broken by placing a bomb in their vicinity. These turn the space into a checkered surfaced. This is the first Bomberman game to have a co-operative story mode.Dyna Blaster is a more graphically advanced upgrade of Bomberman, the definitive maze and bomber game the same basic rules apply here too each level consists of a maze of pylons, always at the same distance one form another. There are six worlds with six stages in each - the sixth stage contains a boss. Also, your power-ups reset to their default abilities on each stage with items being readily available at the start of each boss fight. Unlike most Bomberman titles though, you don't have to find the exit to advance. ![]() The player must defeat all the enemies on screen to advance to the next level. Now it's up to Bomberman to defeat him and restore world peace. One day, King Bomber suddenly turns evil and attacks mankind with his loyal minions. Bomberman and King Bomber have become the best robot team in the world. In the year 2091, robot contests have gained popularity. Atomic Punk, which was released as DynaBlaster in Europe and Bomberman in Japan, is a game from the Bomberman series.
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Single slit diffraction equation des2/6/2024 In 1803 Thomas Young did his famous experiment observing diffraction from two closely spaced slits. James Gregory (1638–1675) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating. Isaac Newton studied these effects and attributed them to inflexion of light rays. The results of Grimaldi's observations were published posthumously in 1665. The effects of diffraction of light were first carefully observed and characterized by Francesco Maria Grimaldi, who also coined the term diffraction, from the Latin diffringere, 'to break into pieces', referring to light breaking up into different directions. Sound waves can diffract around objects, this is the reason we can still hear someone calling us even if we are hiding behind a tree.ĭiffraction can also be a concern in some technical applications it sets a fundamental limit to the resolution of a camera, telescope, or microscope. Ocean waves diffract around jetties and other obstacles. All these effects are a consequence of the fact that light is a wave.ĭiffraction can occur with any kind of wave. A shadow of a solid object, using light from a compact source, shows small fringes near its edges. Diffraction in the atmosphere by small particles can cause a bright ring to be visible around a bright light source like the sun or the moon. This principle can be extended to engineer a grating with a structure such that it will produce any diffraction pattern desired the hologram on a credit card is an example. The most colorful examples of diffraction are those involving light for example, the closely spaced tracks on a CD or DVD act as a diffraction grating to form the familiar rainbow pattern we see when looking at a disk. The effects of diffraction can be readily seen in everyday life. 5.1 Diffraction from an array of narrow slits or a grating.5 Quantitative description of diffraction.4 Qualitative observations of diffraction.1 Examples of diffraction in everyday life. ![]() In fact, each ray from the slit will have another to interfere destructively, and a minimum in intensity will occur at this angle. A ray from slightly above the center and one from slightly above the bottom will also cancel one another. Thus a ray from the center travels a distance \(\lambda / 2\) farther than the one on the left, arrives out of phase, and interferes destructively. In Figure 2b, the ray from the bottom travels a distance of one wavelength \(\lambda\) farther than the ray from the top. However, when rays travel at an angle \(\theta\) relative to the original direction of the beam, each travels a different distance to a common location, and they can arrive in or out of phase. ![]() When they travel straight ahead, as in Figure 2a, they remain in phase, and a central maximum is obtained. (Each ray is perpendicular to the wavefront of a wavelet.) Assuming the screen is very far away compared with the size of the slit, rays heading toward a common destination are nearly parallel. These are like rays that start out in phase and head in all directions. According to Huygens’s principle, every part of the wavefront in the slit emits wavelets. Here we consider light coming from different parts of the same slit. The analysis of single slit diffraction is illustrated in Figure 2. (b) The drawing shows the bright central maximum and dimmer and thinner maxima on either side. The central maximum is six times higher than shown. Monochromatic light passing through a single slit has a central maximum and many smaller and dimmer maxima on either side.
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Balenaetcher windows 102/6/2024 ^ "Resin.io changes name to balena, releases open source edition".img to SD Card on Mac the Easy Way with Etcher". "Etcher – A Modern USB and SD Card Image Writer Tool for Linux". "Etcher Is the Easiest Way to Make a Raspberry Pi SD Card". Windows 11 Windows 10 32/64 bit Windows 8 32/64 bit Windows 7 32/64 bit file size: 147 MB filename: balenaEtcher-Setup-1.18.4. "How to Install Etcher, the open-source USB writer tool, on Ubuntu". ![]()
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