![]() ![]() Don't overcommit to Expanded Missile Racks, there's several builds that don't need it, but as a rule of thumb, if you bring sabot and it's your primary or your only Kinetic damage weapon then always take EMR, otherwise, consider the pros & cons and don't default to it, that might lock you into less optimal builds on some hulls.Īdditionally, accept some amount of losses within your frigate lineup, especially in dangerous fights, most frigate lineups cannot surive the later fights without atleast some losses. etc.), unless you have built your frigates specifically built to counter those, or lack shields but not other defensive systems, such as Phase Cloak or Damper Field.Ĥ. Avoid high kinetic alpha damage targets (Anything carrying a Sabot SRM, Heavy Needler or large quantities of MG's etc. Don't operate non-phase frigates alone, always send them in packs of 2 or ideally more say 3-4 as single frigates are far to likely to die without accomplishing much, alternatively you can pair them with a destroyer.ģ. Mixed role frigates rarely do well or end up taking some sort of tradeoff.Ģ. Choose ahead of time what your frigate hulls will do and build them accordingly, Escort frigates (generally) need Peak time & PD, Wolfpack frigates need DPS and ideally burst DPS with a priority on Kinetic Damage, so that even against ships that they cannot outright kill they can atleast convince to back off to dissipate flux. That said here's a few things to keep in mind when using frigates in general:ġ. I vastly prefer ships attacking if I don't tell them otherwise rather than ships not attacking at all! (Then again I'm in a bit of a weird phase where I'm experimenting with using as many reckless officers as I can on non-SO ships: it works really well for a surprising number of them! Not Medusa's though, they get in over their head with the teleport.)įrigates rarely do well in direct combat, usually they are relegated to escort duties, though some specific frigates (Tempest, Scarab, Wolf, Lasher, Brawler & all phase frigates) can do well, but must operate as a group with either the "Escort" or "Defend" commands set on one of them, or they (usually) get killed off while in Search & Destroy.Īdditionally a lot of (almost all) of my frigate builds use SO, the notable exceptions that don't are Tempest (On some builds, most still run SO), Scarab (Same story here) & Omen (Never run these SO'd as they act as dedicated escort frigates), if you count the Brawler as a frigate (I would, it's priced the same supply wise) then there's only 1 Brawler build out of the 4 that I use that does not use SO's (though SO's from the (LP) variant though, so built in/free). These points may need to get moved or cancelled depending on how the fight goes, because if the enemy goes far away or over-run the position then the frigates are going to be either not fighting or murdered, respectively.ģ) Tell them to eliminate something else as a pack, preferably an isolated target that won't get help before your mobile but fragile ships get the job done.īasically, if you don't want your ships to follow one of the general orders, then tell them to do something else. I often do this on the flanks and to the rear of the enemy blob, and make action groups so I don't have to keep selecting them. ![]() In terms of ordering an engage on an enemy capital and not having your frigates go to attack it, you have a couple of options:ġ) Attach your frigates to other ships via right click escort orders, if they are the type of frigate this makes sense for.Ģ) Assign your frigates to waypoints, again via right click - they will then skirmish out from that point, or be pushed back, using the normal "leash" mechanics.
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7/13/2023 0 Comments Aptana studio 3 francais![]() Select “Preview Settings” from the left-hand tree and choose the “Use specific server” radio button. That will bring up the a dialog for setting properties that apply to that specific project. Right-click the NewsletterSubscription project in the Project Explorer pane and select Properties at the bottom of the context menu. Using Your Server for PreviewsĪs mentioned earlier, we need to preview our subscribe.html page on a server that supports PHP. Those only affect the general look & feel of the editors themselves and not that of the code. Note that there are some definable colors in the “Appearance color options” list on the bottom. It’s accessible via General=>Editors=>Text Editors from the tree: Both of these can be found on the “Text Editors” screen. There are a couple of other features that I like to set in my editor, including “Insert spaces for tabs” and “Show line numbers”. Individual colors are changeable as well. There are a few themes that are typical black on white, including Aptana Studio 2.x, Eclipse, and Dreamweaver. To get there, select Window=>Preferences from the main menu and go to Aptana Studio=>Themes in the tree: This is easily remedied from the Themes screen on the Preferences dialog. Some people might like that color scheme I find it a little depressing myself. Instead of the typical black text on a white background, the colors are reversed. One thing that stands out right away when you open a file in the editor pane is that the colors are pretty radical. I performed some cleanup of the latter by moving the jquery-1.5.1.min.js file up a level and deleting everything else in the js folder.ĭouble-click the renamed subscribe.html file to open it in the editor. You’ll also need to drag the CSS and JS folders to the root as they are referenced by the index.html file. In the Project Explorer pane, drag the index.html file to the root of your project folder and rename it to subscribe.html by right-clicking the file and selecting Rename from the context menu. We could go through the File=>New menu items to create an empty HTML page from a template, but there’s no need, since the boilerplate framework already contains a perfectly usable index.html page. The sign up page is called subscribe.html. For Wamp it’s the “If you expand the project by clicking on the plus sign on the left of the project name you’ll see the HTML5 boilerplate folder directly below it, from which we’ll be borrowing some files for our project: Use the Browse button to locate your web server’s document root. Uncheck “Use default location” in order to enter the web root of our web server. ![]() However, rather than select the obvious PHP Project, I would suggest selecting “Web Project” instead, because it gives you easy access to some very useful templates and files within the excellent HTML5 boilerplate framework:Ĭlick Next> and enter “NewsletterSubscription” for the Project name. Once you’re certain that you’ve installed all of the necessary tools, start up Aptana Studio and roll up your sleeves! Choosing a Project TypeĪptana Studio offers an array of Project types to choose from. The built-in server that comes with Aptana is only suitable for Ajax calls and basic web page serving. You’ll also be needing a web server which supports PHP. The first time that you open Aptana Studio, it will offer to install it for you. On Windows, Aptana recommends PortableGit from msysgit because it has a bash shell for executing commands. Git is used internally to update your scripting environment. Sun/Oracle Java 1.5.x or later must be installed separately on Mac and Linux, while the Windows installer includes a compatible version of Java. Aptana Studio requires a few third party tools some come with the installation package, some don’t. If you haven’t already done so, download Aptana Studio 3 as a standalone application or plug-in for Eclipse 3.5+. ![]() ![]() In building this project, we will learn how to include JavaScript libraries in our projects, how to configure Aptana Studio to use our Web server, and how to set up our own Server/Runtime Configurations and Preview Settings. On the server-side, a PHP script will verify that the email was received and sends a message back to the browser for displaying. The page will contain a text field that accepts an email address and a button for submitting it to the server using jQuery. In this tutorial, we’re going to get better acquainted with Aptana Studio 3 by creating a hypothetical newsletter subscription page. Net, Titanium, PyDev (Python, Jython, Iron Python). Though its primary function is as an Ajax development environment, it is equally adept at working with PHP, Ruby, Rails. Aptana Studio is one of the most comprehensive tools in the free Web editor market. 7/13/2023 0 Comments Mini metro cool math![]() The odds on both sides of the river are very different Now that you see the diagram just for that south portion, its time to look at the bigger map as a whole you do not need to know the specific odds or numbers or percentages but just keep in mind those odds and what weeks you need to pick up a carriage upgrade while at it. plus the multiple intersections allows you to not need a carriage as specific lines just needs to pick up their passengers and just move along. it is because the amount of loops and lines dealing with that area have trains that are constantly moving from station to station without having to wait for an another train to come by and pick up. Now im going to focus on the south of the seine river where itll be easier for me to add lines and stations and to calculate the odds and likelihood for needing a carriage upgrade just for the south of the seine.Īs you can see, as more lines started to add onto the area, your chances of needing a carriage goes smaller and you do not need to worry about getting a carriage on that side of the river. If you still dont understand the math behind this, let me use the beautiful vintage paris 1937 metro map as a demonstration this also means that in about 3 weeks, you must get at least one carriage upgrade for those lines. since you have 3 lines going into or on that area, the probability of you needing a carriage to place on those lines are 1 in 3 chances or 33.333%. ![]() Take for an example, say that i have a loop and 2 lines crossing over a river on the eastern edge of the map. the likelihood of you needing to get a carriage also depends on the amount of weeks you are considering in getting a carriage upgrade for that area. because of how many trains go through that area, you do not need as much carriages for that area since the trains spontaneously go in and out delivering those sets of passengers. The inverse equation for deciding how much carriages goes on a particular set of linesĪs you can see from what i listed, this is an inverse function where as your lines on an area increases, the odds of you needing to place a carriage on that same area exponentially decreases. keep in mind that i am not a mathematician wizard and just a junior in high school and only had a grasp on just algebra, calculus and a little bit of statistics. well after thinking about it, i came up with a equation that reflects off of that statement. That thought came in my mind when i had multiple lines over in guangzhou that didnt need much carriages as from the southern portion of the map. The amount of lines in a particular area is inversely proportional to the amount of carriages needed for that same area On a comment thread that i listed on my last mini metro post, i left a bolded statement where that but seeing how much i observed just from playing it makes me wonder what kind of possibility i can take to get on that path of making sure i can get where i needed to score high. it seems that the strategy that i always take is quickly getting as much lines before moving along to carriages and i found some success while achieving it. WARNING: if you despise algebra and statistics or cannot bear to watch some simple equations or numbers, may i advice you to move along and continue on without thinking about thisįor the few of you remaining, i found a concept while playing guangzhou just recently on my other post and the other maps that got me to close or near the leaderboards whether its daily or all-time. ![]() In the case of Avast at least, once you switch the shields back on, the Start menu search may continue working as it should. You could just try disabling your Avast shields temporarily, which should get the Start menu search back. Next, follow the steps to try to get things working again. ![]() If Cortana or Taskbar search is not working, open Task Manager > File menu > Run new task. Fix problems with the Start menu Windows 11 Windows 10 To troubleshoot the following problems, select any heading to see more info. ![]() ( Windows Defender itself has become a viable, secure option in recent years.) Fix Start Menu not working in Windows 11/10. In the registry editor, navigate to the mentioned key ( HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun) where you will find the entry: Restart the computer, give it a few seconds to properly load and you will see now that you can type in the Windows 10 Start Menu as you would usually do. Avast is one culprit, so try uninstalling that if you have it, then find an alternative if need be. Running the Windows Troubleshooter (it found the problem, it said that it fixed the problem but it did not fix anything) Using the System File Checker Updating my antivirus application Starting Windows Search's startup type to 'automatic' in services Doing all of these have not fixed the feature. To be clear, we’re not suggesting here that you should disable and completely remove all third-party antivirus software from your device, but based on feedback here and across the Internet, certain programs cause Windows Search to malfunction. Disable/Restart Third-Party Antivirus, Enable Windows Firewall In addition, running the SFC utility in Windows 10 Safe Mode could solve the problem for you, so that’s worth a shot if doing it in regular Windows 10 fails. Solved: Windows 10 start menu search not working after update System files on the computer may be corrupt or mismatched with other files. Check if the Windows Search service is running Rebuild the search index in Windows 10 Use the built-in troubleshooter to repair the search Reset the Windows. Give that the Start menu search is a system process, any errors in it should be detected by using the SFC utility. This will scan your system files for any errors and corruptions and automatically attempt to fix them. 7/12/2023 0 Comments Satisfactory epics game keykeyName a game series that deserves a TV adaptation. Let us know your answer on Twitter or in the comments below. 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RTX 3080 members will be able to stream up to 4K natively on Samsung Smart TVs for the first time, as well as get maximized eight-hour gaming sessions and dedicated RTX 3080 servers. The new TV firmware will start rolling out at the end of the month, enabling 4K resolution for Samsung Smart TV streamers with an RTX 3080 membership. 2022 Samsung TVs and select 2021 Samsung TVs will be capable of streaming in 4K, as Samsung’s leadership in game-streaming technology and AI upscaling optimizes picture quality and the entire gaming experience. Get tuned in to the cloud just in time for these TV streaming updates.Įven better, gaming on Samsung Smart TVs will look pixel perfect in 4K resolution. GeForce NOW is making its way to 2021 Samsung Smart TV models, and is already available through the Samsung Gaming Hub on 2022 Samsung TVs, so more players than ever can stream from GeForce NOW - no downloads, storage limits or console required. ![]() ![]() Go Big, Go Bold With 4K on Samsung Smart TVs Plus, Yes by YTL Communications, a leading 5G provider in Malaysia, today announced it will soon bring GeForce NOW powered by Yes to gamers across the country. Get started with the 10 new titles streaming this week. This GFN Thursday, kick off the weekend streaming GeForce NOW on Samsung TVs, with upcoming support for 4K resolution. Which is never a good place to be as then valve will not make the platform better.Gaming in the living room is getting an upgrade with GeForce NOW. The universally bad option is that Epics anti-consumer approach succeeds, with enough sales that Epic making more money from their cut than it cost them for the exclusive while publisher/developers make their 88. Valve have locked the market up on steam, so unless epic do exclusives, then valve will retain market dominance. There is no other way to compete with valve. You can see why they go to epic, as its a smaller cut and, if they sign the deal, they get those profits based on projected sales on steam.Īnd yes, epic have to do that. If they are lucky, they will see maybe half the profit from each sale. The issue with the 30% for smaller devs is that its another tax on top of everything else they lose. Though this isn't really the place for this, If you pick B, your epic games since the day they launched. If you pick A, your not a big time company but more likely a smaller dev and publisher group that can sink the 30% fee per sale because of the price you are charging do you:Ī: keep your product on a platform that benefits from sales on itī: pull your product from the platform to force people to choose yours from now on so you make a platform, this platform is to try and give the biggest platform the middle finger from a business perspective. Rocket league was removed by the developers, according to the store page, but i strongly suspect that it was going to be a case of remove the game or remove the epic store hook in. It had store elements, but there was more to it than that. Games for windows live wasn't a store, it was an implementation of standards for games. Steam likely wasnt the one who removed rocket league, that is purely up to the developer if they want it here or not, but since epic is the owner now, they get a say on it. some of them got free pushes from the devs of the GOTY edition when GFWL went down, but not all of them. Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:its something that has happened in the past, Fable 3, Arkham city, all needed the now dead games for windows live service and required login for it to happen. ![]() We have hope you have enjoyed this short introduction to the physical techniques of iconography. and we can proceed to make reproductions for you: photographing the icon, laminating and mounted the prints on wood, and carefully finishing them. With the lettering of Saint John's scroll ( fig. The subject's clothing and other elements are also "built" in a similar manner, usually beginning with the broad, dark background colors, and then adding the lighter colors and the details over this background ( fig. Next, he applies a basic flesh coat over the green base coat, following by increasingly lighter tints of the flesh color and then the darker outlines and details are executed ( fig. In this way the underlying greenish tinge will create shadows and depth ( fig. He begins the flesh areas with an olive green base coat, over which he will paint lighter colors of transluscent paint. The iconographer applies the paint in layers, beginning with the darker, underlying colors (fig. This is done by scribing the circle with a compass and a pen nib dipped in bright red paint ( fig. 6).Īfter painting the gold background (symbolic of the heavenly world), the artist paints the halo or nimbus. When the size is slightly tacky, he applies sheets of gold leaf to the background area, and then burnishes the leaf to a deep shine ( fig. However, when the iconographer chooses to use a gold-leaf background, he begins by applying a coat of size ( fig. Most of Monastery Icons feature a painted gold-colored background. Since the paints traditionally used in iconography are to some degree translucent, light actually passes through the paint of the finished icon and then illuminates or brightens the colors of the paint by reflecting off the white background of the board. The board is usually prepared with several coats of white gesso (a thick preparation of white pigment in an adhesive base). Monastery Icons uses acrylic paints that closely duplicate the qualities and appearance of egg tempera. This is because the traditional medium for iconography is egg tempera, which becomes inflexible after it dries and consequently needs to be applied to a firm surface to avoid cracking. In this way the lines of the figure will remain visible as he paints.Īlthough in other schools of painting the artist commonly paints on canvas, the iconographer usually paints on a wooden board. Then he etches the lines of the icon into the gesso using a stylus (a thick needle embedded in a small wooden dowel) ( fig. ![]() Using graphite paper, he then transfers the drawing onto a prepared, gessoed board ( fig. 1), the iconographer uses pencil and paper to create a preliminary sketch called a skelion ( fig. John the Baptist that you see in this page's photos) and other similar subjects, to find the traditional depiction.Īfter he has studied these samples, compared the elements in the icons, and chosen what he thinks are the best ( fig. In creating a new icon, our iconographer begins by searching his collection of books on icons, gathering samples of icons of the new subject (like the icon of St. Rather, the iconographer's first work is to study how the subject at hand has been traditionally depicted in this rich artistic tradition.īelow is a video of how the icon "O Holy Night" was conceived and painted, and below that a step by step walkthrough of the stages in the creation of an icon, in this case of St. Unlike other approaches to painting, the creation of an icon does not begin in the artist's imagination. ICONOGRAPHY IS THE OLDEST TRADITION of Christian sacred art, embodying the work of thousands of iconographers, many of whom were themselves saints. 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7/12/2023 0 Comments Microsoft bejeweled 3![]() ![]() Here we pride ourselves on creating, finding and distributing solitaire games, card games, and puzzle games. Interested in learning more about why it is good to play solitaire games? Check out our benefits page. Solitaire games are not only fun to play, they also entail various benefits, both for the cognitive function as well as for mental wellbeing. For example, where should you move cards when you have multiple options? Read more on our solitaire strategy page to win your next game of solitaire. ![]() That's why we created an overview of the most common strategies to increase your win chances when playing solitaire. Winning at solitaire depends as much on skill as it depends on luck. Make sure to read David Parlett's extensive article on the history of solitaire for more info. ![]() In English society, solitaire gained popularity thanks to a book called Illustrated Games of Patience, written by Lady Adelaide Cadogan. Solitaire is one of the most popular card games, but do you also know its history? Solitaire has been around since the 18th century, when it first appeared in a written text. Other well-known games are Spider Solitaire, FreeCell, Pyramid Solitaire, Golf Solitaire, Tri Peaks and Forty Thieves. We all know the classic solitaire variant, officially known as Klondike Solitaire, in which you build cards on the tableau according to alternate colors. Our page with solitaire types and families classifies the most common solitaire games according to their type and family. The type of gameplay can also be used to classify solitaire games (builders, packers, non-builders). There are different solitaire game types, depending on whether all cards are visible at the start or not (closed games, half-open games, open games). These are of course all played with one or multiple decks of playing cards, but there are also other commonalities between certain games. Over 500 different solitaire variants exist. We have definitions for the most common terms on our solitaire terminology page. There are multiple specific terms that are used in texts about solitaire, such as stock, waste pile, tableau, foundations and more. 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These are games that will be leaving Xbox Game Pass. Xbox games being removed from Xbox Game Pass Fight back against villainous foes by mastering a revamped combat system and make critical choices that will determine the outcome of the story. Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 is a sequel to the beloved turn-based RPG, Fuga: Melodies of Steel, where a group of orphans try to survive the horrors of war by piloting an unstoppable war machine called the Taranis. 7/12/2023 0 Comments Miami centurion loungeYou may use Send & Split® with an Additional consumer Card that is issued in the US by American Express National Bank and is not cancelled if you also have an eligible Card in the same Online Account and that Online Account is enrolled in Send & Split. 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In the latest test, though, Vipre doesn’t appear.įive of the six products tested by AV-Comparatives in their latest Mac-focused test achieved 100% protection. Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac, Norton, and Trend Micro did the same. You can’t do better than a perfect 18 points. Another six points reflect how well the antivirus avoided false positives, meaning instances in which it flagged a valid program or website as bad.Īt the time of its previous review, Vipre took six points in all three categories. Products can earn six more points by doing their job without slowing down system performance. They assign up to six points for the product's all-important ability to detect and protect against malware. Unfortunately, Vipre doesn’t appear in either lab’s latest results.Įxperts at AV-Test Institute rate antivirus tools three different ways. One of them has included Vipre in its testing in the past. Two of the four labs I follow regularly release reports on Mac antivirus. I don't program for macOS, so I rely more strongly on the independent testing labs in the Mac realm. I've worked with these for years and have devised a collection of helpful analytic utilities. I put every antivirus to the test, to the best of my ability, but my best is admittedly better for Windows-based products. It’s like Vipre in features, but without the sleek, futuristic appearance. ![]() With Vipre it's up to you to turn it on.īullGuard doesn’t sell macOS protection separately from BullGuard Internet Security, but its macOS edition is likewise sparse. Avira, McAfee, Trend Micro, and a few others automatically enable scheduled scanning. Most users won't need to meddle with preferences, except possibly to enable scheduled scanning. Clicking a Settings gear lets you check history, quarantine, and ignored files, as well as opening the product's preferences. The main window and scan choices are just about the entirety of this product's user interface. Finally, a big Scan Now button at right reveals a new set of buttons for Quick, Full, and Custom scans. Naturally, toggling any of these off puts you in At Risk status. The middle panel has three green-glowing toggles for Active Protection, Auto-update Application, and Auto-update Threat Definitions. The big Vipre logo I mentioned resides in the left panel and reflects security status. The main window is separated into three arcs, ranging in color from dark at left to silvery-light at right. Where the Windows product’s user interface is all straight lines and rectangles, on the Mac it embraces curves and color gradients. It's worth noting that this product could hardly look more different from Vipre Advanced Security on Windows. Clicking for details gets an explanation of how to give Vipre the necessary permission, and doing so changes the orange logo to a serene green, with status "Protected." Once it launched, it displayed an orange Vipre logo with the words "At Risk." That's because the full disk access required for an antivirus to do its job is no longer a gimme in modern versions of macOS. Vipre installed without incident on the MacBook Air I use for testing. More recently, J2 Global, owner of PCMag’s publisher Ziff Davis, acquired Vipre. For example, if you click a malware notification popup for more information, you come to a page with sunbeltsecurity in the URL and several references to ThreatTrack on the page. You can still see this history in some of the product's web pages. Originally published by Sunbelt Software, its name stood for "Virus Intrusion Protection Remediation Engine." Over the years, the product was bought by GFI and then spun off as a separate company called ThreatTrack. You may be surprised to learn that Vipre has been around for more than 25 years. If you're stuck on an older OS version, perhaps due to antique hardware, you might look at ProtectWorks AntiVirus (for Mac), which both extend support back to Snow Leopard (10.6). Vipre does go farther back than some, with support for El Capitan (10.11) or later. Most Mac users keep their operating systems up to date, so the fact that many Mac antivirus products only support recent versions isn't usually a problem. Sophos Home Free (for Mac) also costs nothing, though technically it's limited to three devices per household. ![]() ![]() Avast, AVG, and Avira all offer free Mac protection. Of course, it's also possible to protect your Macs without paying a single dollar.
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