The new changes will come into effect this quarter and could appear on new products before the end of the year. Instead, the logos that were developed for the USB4 standard and USB PD 3.1, will be adapted across the board. At the same time, the old SuperSpeed USB logo is being retired and the branding will not appear on new products at all. This is said to be done to simplify the plethora of logos that are currently being used and to make it easier for consumers to know what they're buying. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has announced a few changes to the various logos that are tied to the USB standard. This type of board was supposed to start at or below the US$150 mark and we'll hopefully see a transition to there in due time. On the other hand, it only has a front header for a USB-C port and none around the back. The board obviously also has WiFi 6E and somewhat surprisingly has 2.5 Gbps Ethernet. It doesn't appear as if any of these boards are based on the B650E chipset, but based on information TPU were given at Computex, we know that some higher-end B650 boards will cost around the same as some lower-end B650E boards.Īs B&H has only listed key features of the boards, it's hard to tell what features some of the boards offer, but the base model is the mATX Pro B650M-A WiFi, which at the very least has one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, one PCIe 4.0 x4 slot, one PCIe 3.0 x1 slot and two M.2 slots. The company has listed no less than seven different models from MSI, ranging in price from US$199.99 to US$329.99. US retailer B&H has kindly provided the first B650 motherboard pricing and it's something of a mixed bag. On the same kind of level sits B650 Pro RS, which is a step down in the sense that one of the M.2 slots PCIe 3.0 x2 and it has fewer PCIe slot, but it appears to have slightly fancier cooling for the VRMs and it gains a DisplayPort output around the back. At least there's a rear mounted 20 Gbps USB-C port here and the board has a total of three M.2 slots, of which one is PCIe 5.0. It comes with 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, but WiFi is optional. The base model is the B650 PG Lightning, which is a pretty feature stripped motherboard, yet all PCIe slots are said to be PCIe 4.0 and it has a pre-installed I/O shield. In other words it seems like most entry level boards are now using high-end PCBs, due to the transition to PCIe 5.0. Something interesting to note that Videocardz is pointing out, is that only the cheapest board in the lineup has a six layer PCB, with most models using an eight layer PCB and the Mini-ITX board is going up to 10 layers. Once again we're looking at a collection of seven models, four B650E and three B650 models in total. Unfortunately there's no pricing attached to this leak, unlike the earlier pricing details for MSI's B650 motherboards from B&H, but Videocardz has managed to get the specs for ASRocks upcoming B650 and B650E motherboards.
0 Comments
The watch itself, officially called the Omega Speedmaster Moon Watch Co-Axial Chronograph Dark Side Of The Moon was originally released back in 2013 and today has five distinct variants: Thus, those astronauts were indeed the first men to see the moon in such a way… This was the first manned NASA mission that left Earth’s orbit, reached the moon, and returned home safely. This watch really tries to point resonate with the Apollo XIII mission in 1968 when man first came close to seeing the “dark side of the moon” up close and in person. To date there have been over 80 variants of the Omega Speedmaster line featuring different face configurations, complications, and movements including both ETA as well as in-house movements now found in this latest homage.Ī nice two-part history of the Speedmaster can be found here on Monochrome Watches. The original watches were manual movements, as the automatic movements of many of the new models would not work in a zero gravity environment. It was selected by NASA in the early 1960’s as it passed all of the testing criteria that were established for space use. However, the watch is now known as the iconic “Moon Watch” due to the fact that the watch was worn by the first men on the moon in 1969. The speedmaster was originally introduced in 1957, and was intended as a motorcar racing watch. A VERY Abridged History Of the Omega Speedmaster aka “Moon Watch” You can also read more Bespoke Unit watch reviews and articles.įinally, special thanks goes out to Govberg Watches for allowing me to have this “on the wrist” for a week. Currently, as of August 2016, they can be found in mint condition on the secondary / pre-owned watch market for around $7,500 – $9,000.ĭuring the course of this article we shall explore a brief history of the Speedmaster, review the watch itself (from the on the wrist feel all the way down to its exact dimensions), and finally round out with my final thoughts on the watch. Since the watch’s launch in 2013, there are five distinct models on offer. The retail price of the watch is $12,000, in part due to the technological complexity of the case construction and its sophisticated well-finished 9300 caliber in-house movement that powers the watch. The Omega Speedmaster Dark Side Of The Moon pays homage to the original Speedmasters that were used on the Apollo space missions. It’s crafted from a solid block of black zirconium ceramic (ZrO2), and features the Omega Co-Axial 9300 chronograph movement. However, even though many buildings are available, it's not enough for all of them to have a purpose in the primary story mode. There are more than twenty different buildings available for your city. There's also a creative mode, where you can build whatever you want without any limits. There's the primary story mode where you have to complete specific tasks and an endless mode. You are responsible for building and growing your city. Venture Towns Mod Apk is a town builder game. In addition, a happy population means less crime and pollution. The island is divided into six areas, each theme and named after a different continent.Įco-friendly buildings, such as solar panels, wind turbines, and biogas plants generate clean energy that allows you to reduce your consumption, thereby reducing your environmental footprint. Venture Towns Mod Apk takes place on an island inhabited by a tribe of Mii characters. Tapping an avatar brings up that person's name and details about their workplace and daily schedule, such as their working hours and commute time. For example, tapping on a job site causes the game to switch to an aerial view showing the site surrounded by roads and buildings, with each person represented by an avatar. The player can touch a building to enter it and view its internal operations. Every simulator has the ability to speed up time, and I’m not entirely sure why Kairosoft thought this omission would be wise.Tapping on a building displays information about it and its contribution to its simulation. This would be more tolerable if there was an accelerate button, but there isn’t. After this influx of cash you’ll likely have spent everything that you can within a few moments, and then you’ll have to sit, wait, and simply plan for the next cash injection to hit. At two of three points each in-game year, there’s a significant influx of cash – once per year when you collect tax on each property in town, and once or twice when a dude shows up to buy some of the resources that you accumulate through play. Unfortunately it also has a habit of forcing you to sit and wait for extended periods of time without much to do. With a half dozen or so different maps to play on, each with their own high score tracked, and 15 years in-game being a solid couple of hours of real-time play, Venture Towns is certainly generous by Kairosoft standards. Venture Towns, however, gives you a score at the end of 15 years of in-game play, and then challenges you with trying to beat that score. Most Kairosoft titles simply peter out at the end and leave you with not much more to do than start over again (which, admittedly, you’ll be happy to do because they’re so charming). To Venture Town’s benefit, there’s a lot of replay value. There’s a lot to manage in terms of placement in Venture Towns, and while the simulation side of things is fairly simple and straightforward, making the town fit together nicely is a significant puzzle-like challenge. Different buildings have a different impact on the surrounding land value, and you can also use trees and other plans to help boost land prices… so long as you don’t need that space for property.įinally, you can create “combos” that offer big boosts, but require that you put three buildings next to one another, and if you have any of those buildings replicated nearby, the double-up will drain on the profitability of both. Citizens only have a small range that they’ll roam, and they’ll need all their work offices and shopping outlets within that range. There’s a catch to all of this – the kind of money that you make depends on the land value, and proximity that citizens have to shops and work. As citizens visit these stores, you naturally get a bit of money dropped into your own coffers to continue building up the city. Shops cover a huge range, including entertainment, lotteries, bike and pet shops (allowing people to get around town on a bike or wander around with a cat or dog), and food. Over time you can unlock new job options, which can earn your people greater incomes, and lead to a greater range of shops for them to spend the money at. Your residents will go to work in an office every time they run out of money. In my early twenties I was more interested in having sex with lots of women and put a fair amount of effort into that. But that part of me is very much in conflict with and quite heavily suppressed by a number of other factors including my desire not to mess up my relationship with my fiancee, the fact that I already have as much sex as I really want to with my fiancee, the fact that, even if my fiancee were really, really okay with me pursuing other women I would not really have the time or energy to do so anyway, etc. On some level, for example, there is a part of me that would like to have sex with a lot of women. On the other, that does not mean that this isn’t more or less important to different men. On the one hand, most men, if they could have a lot of consequence-free sex with a lot of women without any effort, probably would. I think there is an erroneous assumption that, because men are naturally more inclined to the “lots of low investment mates rather than one or two high investment mates” strategy, that therefore, what all men, really want, deep down, is to have sex with lots of women. trying really hard to have sex with a lot of women is probably the number one factor that determines whether a man has sex with a lot of women. Regardless of how you look, how much money you make, etc. I feel like this fact goes overlooked a lot in discussions of sexual dynamics, game, etc. “I think that the men who have sex with the most women are the ones who want to have sex with the most women.” He also took away her fragrance and gave her a divine fragrance. He promised to mask their union as well as allow her to retain her virginity after the union. Parashara’s desire for her overwhelmed him. She was known as Matsyagandha (stink of fish). She was operating the ferry to cross the river. Vyasa is the product of a somewhat controversial union between Parashara the daughter of a boat man (or fisherman). His son, Ved Vyasa, is famous for having composed the Purana which made the knowledge of the Vedas accessible to common people. In addition to this Hora shastra, Parashara is known to have compiled several sections of the vedas. Eventually he was told that it was his father’s karma to be killed that way and he was only going to make new karmas for himself if he continued his deadly worship. Parashara sought revenge for his father’s death by seeking to kill all the demons with a special worship for the purpose. Grandfather was a great rishi named Vashishta. Parashara: Grew up with his grandfather after his father was killed by a demon. Surya, Pitamahah, Vyasa, Vashishta, Atree, Parashara, Kashyapa, Narada, Garga, Marichi, Manu, Angira, Lomasha, Paulisha, Chayavan, Yavana, Bringu, Saunaka. Samhita: Technical manuals for doing or building things in right relation to the planets.Hora: movement of the planets and the meaning of that movement.Chandah: (Legs) Metre – Number of syllables in a line.Nirukta: (Ears) Etymology – the roots of words.Vedic astrology is called the supreme limb of the vedas, what are the 6 limbs of the vedas? You probably won't get stumped, although the puzzles are involved and organic enough that they don't seem like pointless busywork. Puzzles generally involve hunting for keys, picking up various objects, jumping to avoid certain death, pulling levers and that sort of thing. Although the game is extremely eerie and tough to deal with because of all that "go nuts in the dark" stuff, most of the puzzles are pretty easy as long as you keep your eyes open and can deal with the often-convoluted layout of the castle. Disembodied voices cry for help.Īll that said, Amnesia is more of a spooky experience than a tough game. Wind comes up suddenly in closed rooms and snuffs out candles. Daniel mutters to himself when going bonkers. Going insane comes with interesting visual effects as well, including smearing colours, teetering camera angles and bugs crawling across the screen. Most of the rooms provide subtle chills, through the presence of ruined walls, smashed-open ceilings letting in rain, and lone candles sputtering in the middle of lonely cellar chambers. Spooky, shadowy castle rooms add to the uncanny feeling that something awful is about to happen any second. You find yourself racing across rooms avoiding monsters that often aren't even there because the big bads are tough enough yet rare enough that they represent more of an occasional hazard than an oppressive force that would turn the game into an action-oriented sneaker. Tinderboxes and lamp oil, which are needed to shed some light on things, are hard to come by, so you find yourself sprinting between the pools of light that dot the game like oases in the blackness.Įverything conspires to totally creep you out. At times, you don't even have the former alternative. As a result, you're faced with two unpleasant options: stay in the light and risk catching a glimpse of some mind-blasting monstrosity that can rip you to pieces, or creep through the darkness and take a chance on winning an all-expenses-paid trip to the funny farm. Daniel is unhinged enough that he's afraid of the dark, so the longer you cower in corners or even walk down darkened hallways, the more rapidly he goes insane. But you can't hide out in the castle's many shadows. Take them head-on and you either go as crazy as Lovecraft's Charles Dexter Ward or get slaughtered. So when the shambling monsters shamble by, you have no choice but to avoid them. Daniel is a few fries short of a Happy Meal and has absolutely no recourse to weapons or any sort of magic or special gadgets. For starters, this is a real horror game, which means that you're in trouble from the get-go. The story and structure are brilliantly realised. Yet at the same time, you can't wait to get there. From the very beginning, you know you're being pushed toward some great revelation that won't be all sunshine and lollipops. Read everything you find, and you'll be drawn into a chilling castle populated by a lone protagonist who is a bit off his nut and being hunted by shadowy somethings that are more than a teensy bit spine-chilling. The story is fascinating and is told through easily digested chunks scattered through the game. It's a little cliched, but Frictional does some smart things with the old hero-with-amnesia gimmick. Hints are also provided by flashbacks that regularly pop up out of nowhere. Early stages have a bit of a Memento vibe, with Daniel trying to discover hints about his past through reading notes that he apparently left for himself and searching through old diary entries and random scraps of paper. You take on the role of Daniel, who awakens in the darkened halls of Brennenburg Castle at the start of the game with a bad case of - you guessed it - amnesia. I have officially made the switch and below are the reasons why. I have now been using the PMD Clean Smart Facial Cleansing Device for two weeks and I am in love! My skin actually looks smoother which completely surprised me as I was only hoping for it to match the Clarisonic. Additionally, the expense of having to replace the heads definitely adds up. However, I am not the best at replacing my brush heads and it can get really disgusting underneath. I also had gotten use to seeing the brush head get dirtied up with my makeup and/or product.I know, kind of strange, but it was good to see how much was coming off and I felt like once it was clear I knew my face was completely clean. It did take a few days of me getting use to not having the feel of the brush head. I was still curious to see if it would have the same amount of power behind it, but it definitely does! Why you ask? Well this means no more bathroom needed counter space for the base AND no wires. I get the PMD home and open the box.already dreading the whole having to charge it for a few hours before use, BUT much to my surprise there are no plugs and it is battery operated. But, since we recently added to our inventory the PMD Clean Smart Facial Cleansing Device and since it has been a few years, I decided to give it a whirl. I was swayed to try a Foreo by a rep a few years back and loved the fact that there would be no more replacement brushes, but couldn't get behind the way I held the device and it just didn't feel as if my face was getting as clean. I purchased my first one in my mid to late 20's and have been hooked ever since. I have been a Clarisonic girl for almost 15 years now. Now that we have covered this.we can move on to the battle! Not only will a cleansing brush or device clean your face between 2-5x better than a washcloth or using your hands, but it will also allow your product to penetrate deeper and provide much better results. Let me first start out by saying, if you aren't already using some sort of cleansing brush then I would strongly encourage you to do so immediately. However, the issue again comes down to redistribution. There is enough water on the planet to meet the needs of more than 7 billion people. But have you heard that there’s enough water for everyone in the world too? You’ve probably heard before that there’s enough food in the world to feed every hungry individual. There have been many social and economic awakenings in the past, and there’s no reason why another awakening can’t happen with water. The shift from oil to renewable energies is taking place, and it’s time for this movement to encompass water. Wars have already been fought over oil in the past and conflict over this scare (and, at this point, dangerous resource) continues in places like the Niger Delta and the South China Sea.Ī shift in mentality around the value of water needs to happen to avoid future conflict. The world’s global economy has started to come to terms with the fact that commodities such as oil are not infinite. There is more freshwater available but it’s either been polluted by human activity or is trapped in glacial form (though not for long with the increasing effects of climate change.) This is not a large amount and so it must be protected and carefully managed starting now. However, today only 2.5 percent of the planet’s water supply flows cleanly. This would be unsettling for many people, but it would better reflect how precious water is and would put costs on the wealthiest.ĭeveloped regions of the world were lucky to build water and sanitation infrastructure early on compared to developing regions, affording some countries the opportunity to consider clean water an endless source. One solution would be to increase the prices. It can be easy to run the tap while brushing your teeth when the cost of water is so low for some. In other regions such as Papua New Guinea, some of the world’s poor spend $2.60 USD for just 13 gallons (the minimum for human health requirements.) In New York, water costs $3.39 USD for 748 gallons. Right now, water costs in some regions cost such a small fraction of what it’s actually worth when you factor in how finite it is. But it should be priced relative to the ability to afford. So, what can be done about this frightening imbalance between the need for water and the drying up of the world’s wells?įortunately, Solomon and others have some solutions.įirst, water should cost more to reflect its true economic cost. Many of these correlate with conflict regions or areas of high tension, such as the border between India and China, or Bhutan where the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin is currently mapped as “severely overstressed.” NASA recently came out with a mapped study revealing that 21 of the world’s major 37 water sources are distressed, largely because of climate change or overuse from human consumption. The problem is that this “growing movement” comes into conflict with the diminishing supply of water around the world. Damn right it is! Humans can’t survive and certainly cannot thrive without access to water. Solomon goes on to say that there is a “growing movement” for water to be recognized as a human right. Suddenly, we’re going to have to find to use the existing water uses in a far more productive manner,” Steven Solomon told NPR. “In the 20th century world water use has grown twice as fast as world population. The connection here is there’s a card in the game that asks players to complete this sentence, “I do not know with what weapons WWIII will be fought with, but WWIV will be fought with _.” Well, I have no answers on the weapons part, but some are saying (and offering solutions to avert) that WWIII will be fought over water. Have you ever played Cards Against Humanity? If you have, you’re a bad global citizen.just kidding (no such thing and you’re awesome for having a sense of humor, in my opinion). WWIII is going to be fought over the scarcity of water if things don’t change soon, according to several authors, news articles, and a new study from NASA. Occasionally, though, I found myself firing up the ol’ PC on my desk, using MS Word to crank out documentation or a memo, or to run one of a handful of smaller utility programs I purchased years ago. I could do almost everything computer related, including e-mail interaction, system administration, net surfing, network Doom (I confess-it was me who circulated that hack so you could run Doom on Solaris 2.3), all on the same machine I used for software development. In a future build of bochs this should be fixed, and win95 will be fully mobile.By far, the majority of my time involving a computer was spent working with my Sun SPARCstation. Or do this with Microsoft's remote utility. When you want to start the mouse, hit F12. Note that I am currently working on the keyboard, so it may or may not work, I guess you will find out.ģ0) If you want to get mouse working, either use dotPocket on your PC to connect to your PocketPC, then run bochs. If this happens copy over win95.img again. I would suggest you RAR it up and use PocketRAR to then extract it.Ģ3a) WINDOWS 95A: Now download bochsrc-ppc-a.txt and copy it over to "\".Ģ3b) WINDOWS 95B and later (or use if you used step 3b): Now download bochsrc-ppc-b.txt and copy it over to "\".Ģ5) Use your display rotator to rotate the screen to Landscape 640x480.Ģ6) Open up PocketConsole (CMD), and cd to "\CF Card\bochs\".Ģ7) At this point make sure you have at least 16mb of RAM free, if not, adjust accordingly.Ģ9) If all went well Windows will begin to start, it sometimes fails, sometimes boots to safe mode, and sometimes works, but will sometimes corrupt. Rename bochsrc-demo.txt to bochsrc.txtĥ) If needed edit certain paths to reflect your computer's paths:įloppya: 1_44=A:, status=inserted boot: floppy -> #boot: floppyġ5) When Windows install completes, shut down Windows, and terminate bochs.ġ6) It is now time to set up the Pocket PC.ġ7) Download: and and a display rotator, like dotPocket, or Nyditot.ġ8) Follow instructions in the RAR to install PocketConsole.ġ9) Follow instructions to install Nyditot/dotPocket.Ģ0) You will now need your CF or SD card handy (at least 128mb).Ģ1) Open up the bochs RAR, copy "bochs.exe", "bochs-scale.exe", "bios/BIOS-bochs-latest", and "bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest" to "\CF Card\bochs \" (note that you can change the directory, but you will also have to edit the config file).Ģ2) Now you can copy over win95.img to "\CF Card\bochs\" (same note as above). Rename bochsrc-demo.txt to bochsrc.txtĤb) WINDOWS 95B and later (or use if you used step 3b): Now download bochsrc-demo-b.txt to your bochs dir, and delete bochsrc.txt. The Steps (for setting up using a boot disk and CD or boot disk and floppy set):ġ) To begin you must install Windows 95 on bochs for Windows.Ģ) To do this, create an image file using bximage.exe after installing bochs for Windowsģa) WINDOWS 95A: Use the following settings when you create the image: Type: hd, Kind: sparse, Size: 75mb, Name: win95.imgģb) WINDOWS 95B and later (or use if you are not sure what version you have): Use the following settings when you create the image: Type: hd, Kind: sparse, Size: 120mb, Name: win95.imgĤa) WINDOWS 95A: Now download bochsrc-demo-a.txt to your bochs dir, and delete bochsrc.txt. See Also: BOCHS H/PC Tools Installation Instructions The application is buggy and the CPUs in most Windows CE devices are too slow to run BOCH emulation well. Please note that this is an alpha release, ported from its Linux source. Alpha release Windows CE port of the x86 emulator BOCHS for Pocket PC and Windows CE 3.0 or higher. So what are you waiting for? The fight to reclaim earth starts here. Every piece of feedback and every mission you play matters. You’re joining us on a journey as we shape the experience. Let the threat level get out of control and you can expect an especially tough Emergence Event to be waiting for you.īy playing Second Extinction you’re not just picking up another co-op shooter. In order for the game to get better, theses bugs need to be sent to the devs and the best way to do that is through the support site. This phase of the game is all about bugs and reporting them to help polish the game for the full release in 2021. But the dinosaurs aren’t resting either, and they’ll focus their efforts where you aren’t.Įach week the community will see the fruits of their labors or feel the consequence of their incompetence. Hey, this game was released in Early Access instead of the closed Beta it was supposed to. This threat level can be lowered if enough of our players are successful in their missions and activities. Nowhere is this more true than our War Effort feature.Įach region of our big map has a unique threat level. Our mantra is that players win battles, communities win wars. We want to hear your feedback loud and clear, and we intend for our community to be a vital part of the development process.Įven so, there’s plenty to get your teeth (and claws) into from day one: 4 heroes,ġ0 weapons (with 5 upgrade tiers each) and 6 missions - plus some special side quests - across multiple regions of our big map. The goal of Game Preview is also simple: Work with our community to make the best game possible. Solo players beware: Second Extinction is designed with squads in mind. In Second Extinction you take on hordes of mutated dinosaurs with up to two friends. Purchase only if you are comfortable with the current state of the unfinished game.Ī NEW BREED OF BIG MAP MULTIPLAYER SHOOTER It may or may not change over time or release as a final product. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |