![]() ![]() One perfect for a Hyperion employee unused to violence. I also liked the moral dilemma born from a discovery about Vaughn. Nevertheless, it was good to see the option to have her struggle with the act of patricide in Episode Two, even as Sasha was quick to judge Felix as worth killing. My interpretation was that Pandora doesn't produce forgiving sorts and everyone who lives there is hardened to some degree. My Fiona chose to kill Felix in retribution for his betrayal of the family. There's also some surprisingly touching moments in this episode too. More Janey Springs is always welcome, especially since the tragic closing of her studio. This one is more of a lovable goof, which may just be Fiona's interpretation of the man. The Scooter I remembered was a vulgar, half-insane, cretin of a man. This version of Scooter is far too nice to be the one I remembered. Oddly enough, my biggest complaint about Scooter is he's slightly "off" from the other Borderlands games. I also appreciated the return of Scooter, mainstay of the series. This, amongst other things, means that Athena is one of the few openly gay major characters in gaming. We also get confirmation that Athena is a lesbian, which is good since there was still some minor controversy over this point. The opportunity to steal her shield is also something which had me laughing aloud. I'm not the world's biggest Athena fan, so I was pleased to see her portrayed in a less-than-flattering light. In addition to Jack, we also have the return of Athena and Janey Springs. There's a lot more continuity in this episode than in the prior one, which is both a good and bad thing. You'll have to rely on him, as untrustworthy as he may be, in order to make it to the Vault. Even so, Jack is the only Vault Hunter you have at your disposal. One of the first interactions you have with him is the holographic reproduction try to strangle you to death. Despite this, Jack remains as insane as ever. This is merely a computer reconstruction of his brain and memories. Thankfully, they don't bring Jack back the dead. I'm, honestly, suffering a little Jack fatigue since we've already had the Pre-Sequel devoted to his rise to power. The episode wastes no time in reintroducing the breakout villain of Borderlands 2. Aiding them in this is, apparently, Handsome Jack. They just have to survive the people who have put prices on their head in order to do it. ![]() Either way, the conwoman and ambitious code-monkey are going to find it in order to make themselves filthy-stinking rich. I rather liked the fact our protagonists weren't Vault Hunters. A joke is made how all things on Pandora ultimately tie to the Vaults but I didn't really think this connection was necessary. The premise is our anti-heroes have discovered the Gortys Project, a leftover experiment by the Atlas Corporation which can theoretically lead to a Vault. You get no less than THREE bullets this time around. Seeing the two groups come together like Fiona's drag race with Vaughn and Rhys teaming up with Sasha in Episode One would be appreciated. I'd like to see some August interaction with Rhys and Fiona with Vasquez-having them gel more into a single group. My only problem with them, really, is they're squarely Rhys and Fiona's respective villains. Both of them are still pretty evil jerks but they aren't quite the cariactures they started off as. We get to find out Vasquez's origins, which are suspiciously similar to Rhys, and that August has a far softer side than I expected. This character development isn't limited to just the protagonists, either, as we get a bunch of insights into villains Vasquez and August. We get to know a lot more about characters Rhys, Fiona, and their companions. I love parodying the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive in a mobile home.Ītlas Mugged is a bit shorter than Zer0 Sum but makes up for it with an excellent mix of action set-pieces and quiet character moments. So what do I think of the second episode? The first episode was reviewed here and I really liked it. Indeed, the characters only possess one gun between them and Fiona is the only one who knows how to shoot it. Tales from the Borderlands manages to capture all of the appeal of the original games but makes the action a little less about guns and more about not dying horribly. ![]() Oh yes, the fact they're absolutely crazy. There's just something about the world and its characters which appeals to me. I love the planet Pandora, space station Helios, the absolutely insane characters, and the weird Space Western/Post-Apocalyspe feel of the place. As anyone who knows me can tell you, I am an absolutely huge fan of the Borderlands universe.
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![]() I have also installed the following hamlib_settings.json file on my Mac per teh recommendation of the WSJT-X support team. I wonder if there are other settings tab need to be set. I am wondering if you or anyone else has been able to get these to work properly with the IC-7610.ĬI-V Address = 98h (Also tried address for 7300, 7600 andĬI-V USB/LAN – Remote Transceive Address = 00h I keep getting the following error message: Hamlib error: Communications bus error while getting current frequency I have been trying to get this combination of programs (WSJT-X, JT-Bridge and MacLoggerDX) to work with my IC-7610, but so far have been unable to get these to work. Click on the snapshot to see the full image. The next thing is getting WSJT-X and JT-Bridge connected and working together. There are snapshots on the next page. Just download JT-Bridge and drag it to the Applications folder.įor JT-Bridge to log your QSO’s into MacLoggerDX, in JT-Bridge you’ll need to click on File and then Open. JT-Bridge is very easy to install as you’ll see in the video below. In WSJT-X I am using the Icom 7300 for the rig and disabling the rig control in MacLoggerDX (See the video below). See my video on YouTube: WSJT-X Installation on iMac For Icom 7300 The next piece of the puzzle is WSJT-X and it requires a little work to install on a Mac. I made a clip on it and WSJT-X which you can see here: Icom 7300 MacLoggerDX Setup.Įverything on this page is using just the one USB cable. Getting MacLoggerDX (MLDX) installed is a breeze. Like I’ve said before, even if you are on a PC, this is something to look at and consider. It’s not unusual to make contacts on 15 Meters into South America too. I can always make contacts on 20 Meters during the day with 5 or 10 watts. ![]() I have grown to enjoy the weak signal modes even with bad propagation. ![]() MacLoggerDX, WSJT-X and JT-Bridge make a powerful and fun combination. Remember, Mac OS has no real concept of a “Com port” as in Windows, and Windows Com ports (and their configuration within N1MM and microHam Router) work exactly the same in a virtualized environment as in a native one.Two of my favorite modes theses days is JT65 and JT9. After each contest, I export the N1MM log via ADIF, and import it into my MacLoggerDX log to maintain completeness and consistency. (I will send you the developer’s email privately so you can ask.)Įxactly what I do. (And thank you, Chen, for open sourcing the code.) I have used it with a USB-II not sure if it fully supports an MKIII. It's not clear that it supports the MKIII, though likely since I believe it to perform the same as the MKII from a communications perspective.Chen's (W7AY) original MacOS “router” has been updated and modified by others to keep it current, especially in light of new versions of the MacOS. I've heard of W7AY's µH Router ( ), presumably the third party (not made/supported by Microham) application you are referencing. Well, I can *imagine* it, but I wouldn’t want to write or support it!) (I can’t imagine a driver that could multiplex a device across multiple operating systems. Each OS has an appropriate driver for the device. Essentially, ANY USB device must connect either to the native Mac OS or to a virtual machine running another OS (e.g., Windows). On Jan 30, 2020, at 6:54 PM, Andy Holmes, K5PO wrote:Ĭorrect. Interfaces uses uH Router which is a native MAC OS program. MLDX and other Mac OS software written to support microHAM "keyer" Router (with Windows software) at the same time. You can not run MacOS software (e.g., MLDX) and microHAM USB Device Router as long as no other Windows software is connected to it?No. So you can have the MACLoggerDx connected to the virtualized Microham Have you run into challenges with Com port software/hardware management? Perhaps I'll also use N1MM virtualized for contests too. I'll likely use MACLoggerDX for the day-to-day as you do. It's not clear that it supports the MKIII, though likely since I believe it to perform the same as the MKII from a communications perspective. ![]() If I understand correctly, it seems to work well in a virtualized environment provided you're not trying to have applications from multiple OS's connect with the software? So you can have the MACLoggerDx connected to the virtualized Microham Router as long as no other Windows software is connected to it? I don't want to buy a Mac workstation for the hamshack to replace my aging custom PC only to run into software roadblocks. Though I'm a longtime Mac OS and Windows user, my Mac is a work device so not appropriate for testing ham radio software. ![]() The Cooper family makes back to the farmhouse during the dust storm and Murph's bedroom did not have the window closed and the dust settled into perfect lines on the floor. An approaching dust cloud interrupts the game reminding them of the grim world they live in, and ends it prematurely. His father in law is unimpressed at the amateurishness of the players and having only popcorn for refreshments and no hot dogs. The Cooper family lives a pretty simple life and have a rare treat of attending a game of a supposedly major league baseball team at a local ball field similar to what the little league play on today. She believes her room is haunted by a ghost because books keep falling off her shelves and a lunar ship model was just knocked over. His daughter Murph is a feisty and highly intelligent girl whom Cooper is very close to and who shares his affinity with space and science. Joe's son Tom is a boy of average intelligence already being ruled out to be a farmer by the school administration, since a college education is now something only a very small percentage those will enjoy the privilege of. The two of them sit on the porch drinking beer in the evening and philosophize about the condition of the world and how things should be. He is a down-to-Earth man who takes care of the household duties and gets along well with Cooper. Donald was born at the end of the 20th or beginning of the 21st century and fondly recalls times when technology was constantly changing and new gadgets being invented. ![]() Cooper's family consists of his 65-year-old father-in-law, Donald (John Lithgow),15-year-old son Tom (Timothée Chalamet), and 10-year-old daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy). In school, it is taught that the US going to the moon in 1969 was a hoax to drive the Soviet Union into bankruptcy and win the Cold War. At a certain age, kids are tested to determine what occupations they will have to take to help humanity survive. However on a good note, there are no more wars or militaries in the world anymore. Technology has come to a standstill for the past 40 or so years, with automobiles no longer produced and a computer laptop is a luxury item. More than half of the world's population has been decimated from famine and America has been reduced to a struggling agrarian society for the past 30 years. They farm corn, with wheat no longer available and okra just now having become extinct due to blight. He is a college-educated former NASA test pilot and engineer who was forced to give up his occupation to farm, living in a run down farmhouse, presumably owned by his father in law. We are introduced to a farmer and widower named Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey). The first one seen is an elderly woman stating her father was a farmer, but did not start out that way. A group of elderly people are giving interviews about having lived in a climate of crop blight and constant dust reminiscent of The Great Depression of the 1930's. It's the best possible way this could go, even if it's not in our grasps just yet. But the movie had to end in one way or another. The acting is really good, but I can understand if some people have issues with the ending. The deserved love the movie gets on IMDb and other places would be an indicator that this will ring true though. Going out and saying this will be considered a classic, might not be too far stretched, but you still can never predict those things. It might be clear to some earlier than to others, where it's heading (no pun intended), but it doesn't change the fact that it's beautiful. It's not only the visual experience (there is no 3D here by the way), it's the story/ride you take with it. It's just amazing, what Nolan has put on screen here. I kind of would have loved to have watched this on an IMAX screen, the sheer scope of the whole thing. ![]() You'll either love this one or you won't. You can obviously take apart any movie that is out there. A lot has been said and written about Interstellar. That’s how VeraCyrpt, Cryptomator and other apps that depend on FUSE for macOS work on new Apple Silicon M1 Macs. Reboot once again and now FUSE for macOS should work as intended – helping VeraCrypt (and other apps like pCloud, Cryptomator etc.) work normally. Click the lock icon at the bottom, enter your password and click Allow in front of the message that says System Extension by Benjamin Fleischer was blocked. Reboot and visit System Preferences > Security and Privacy > General. Turn on both checkboxes underneath and click OK. Now go to Utilities > Startup Security Utility and choose Reduced Security. Choose an administrator account and enter its password. Press and hold the power button until you see ‘loading startup options’ under Apple logo. To run an Apple Silicon Mac with reduced security, turn off your Mac. ![]() Unreal Speccy Fuse For Mac OS X Fuse for macOS is a macOS port of The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse) (an emulator of the 1980s home computer and various clones). To run FUSE – and apps that depend on it – macOS security has to be ‘downgraded’ without which FUSE extension will be blocked. The main goal is to create a Sinclair Spectrum emulator written on pure C so that it can be easily adapted to any platform changing the graphic/sound primitives. According to FUSE developer Benjamin Fleischer, this should change in future when Apple fixes issues that can prevent third-party kernel extensions from loading. Now, it’s not FUSE’s (or VeraCrypt/Cryptomator/pCloud’s) fault. ![]() Without this workaround, FUSE will simply not work, leaving apps that depend on it useless. Because new Macs have changed how system-level extensions work, FUSE doesn’t work out of the box.įUSE 4.x.x has been updated for new Apple Silicon Macs but there is a workaround involved to actually make it work. My recommended zero-knowledge encrypted cloud provider pCloud also works thanks to FUSE. Two encryption app I use daily – VeraCrypt and Cryptomator – rely on FUSE to work. Now, FUSE is not really an ‘app’ on its own but rather an extension. That however, is not true while running VeraCrypt on new M1 Macs. Although it wasn’t immediately updated for the latest macOS version, VeraCrypt works with Big Sur using old OS X FUSE version. I use VeraCrypt to encrypt all my external storage and it relies on OS X FUSE to work. The popular virtualisation app simply can’t run on M1 Macs – natively or otherwise – due to changes introduced in the way new Macs work.Īnother app – and this one is crucial for me – is VeraCrypt. One example that comes to mind is Parallels Desktop that allows you to run operating systems like Windows virtually on a Mac. Apps that are not updated to run natively on Arm architecture run smoothly using Rosetta 2 and it’s hard to tell if you are using a native app or not.īut then there are apps that are crucial for a particular (and relatively small) user-base that are neither updated to run natively on new M1 Macs nor can be run with Rosetta 2. parsing may fail because the fuseoptparse function is not fully compatible with the one in libfuse. While much of Fuse will continue to work in Internet Explorer after this date, you may notice some features (especially newly developed ones) may not work. If you can’t see FUSE here, install it again to enable the Preference Pane.In few weeks of new Macs with Apple Silicon M1 processor, it’s clear that Apple has done a great job to make the transition from Intel chips smooth. Cgofuse is a cross-platform FUSE library for Go. If you are running an older version of MacOS, you may see this message in your Tresorit app, asking you to update FUSE. If you experience issues with Tresorit Drive on your Mac (for example if you can’t upload or access files), you may need to update FUSE to solve the problem. There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to. ![]() You can do this manually yourself, or your Tresorit app will lead you through it automatically. Mounty for NTFS - a tiny tool for macOS to re-mount NTFS volumes in read-write.
![]() In New Jersey, you can see them at the Lakota Wolf Preserve in Columbia. To see wolves outdoors in Pennsylvania, you have to visit the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania in Lititz. The last gray in Pennsylvania died in 1892. But, seen as natural foes of people, they were cleared by trappers and hunters. Gray wolves once thrived in the Northeast. Larry Hajna, spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, says the idea has never even come up: “New Jersey’s the most populated state in the union. Jerry Feaser, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, says, “We have not considered, nor will we ever consider, reintroduction of wolves in Pennsylvania, for two reasons: First, there is no part of Pennsylvania remote enough for wolves to be reintroduced where they would not cause conflict with humans second, because of that, we would not want to have any persecution of the animals, either.” The way things look, they’re not going to get it. To come back around here, wolves would need human help. But it’s still useful to know, says Beerman we could always have visitors. Pennsylvania could support only 45 wolves, far below the 200 identified as viable by the U.S. Each wolf requires an average of 25 square kilometers, or 9.65 square miles, of range, so open country is a must. Using conservative estimates, Beerman identified areas of Blair, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, McKean, Monroe, Pike, Potter, and Wyoming Counties that could sustain packs (two or more) of wolves. Beerman of Saint Mary’s University in Minnesota says they could. 2, proudly, by an Idaho hunter with an expired wolf license.Ĭould wolves, long gone from these parts, make a comeback in Pennsylvania? A study by Jared G. Irony: OR-9, a sib of Journey, was shot Feb. Throughout the west, the gray wolf symbolizes, to some, the interference of the federal government, and to others, the right of wild animals to the wild. In Wyoming, wolves have just been labeled “predators” that can be hunted. Protective laws and federal reintroduction efforts have succeeded in the Rocky Mountain West and the upper Great Lakes regions – to the point that wolves can be legally hunted in Montana, Minnesota, and Idaho. Some say California should put gray wolves on the state endangered list. Journey’s journey has reignited debate about wolves, which is really a debate about how we manage our shrinking gift of nature. The winning name, chosen by two separate kids: Journey. The first gray wolf in the state since 1924, he has become so famous they had a contest to name him. OR-7 is the gray wolf who left his pack in northwest Oregon and trekked more than 1,000 miles into Stanislaus County, Calif. It’s also a saga that will never happen in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. It’s a saga of courage and the enduring resilience of the wild. The thrilling adventure of OR-7 has captivated the West Coast and Northwest. The letters can be capitalized or not, it makes no difference. TL DR → The HEX color notation is a shorthand for RGB and is coded as #RRGGBB, where each color channel is represented with two hexadecimal digits from 0 to F: 00 for 0 and FF for 255. These different notations can become especially handy when composing colors using CSS variables. 15) and we can also use a notation that omits the commas: rgb(255 186 140) and with that comma-less notation the alpha value can also be passed-in like this: rgb(255 186 140 /. ![]() For example, it's now possible to specify the alpha value without using RGBA: rgb(88, 17, 213. You're likely already familiar with how to specify a color using the RGB color notation, but you may be less familiar with additional syntax for it that has been introduced mainly with the CSS color module level 4. Additional notations like HEX and HSL are just different ways of specifying colors in the sRGB color space. The RGB color notation (short for red, green and blue) is really the basis for color on the web currently. The notation looks like this: rgb(44, 233, 77) and opacity can also be specified using RGBA: rgba(44, 233, 77. ![]() TL DR → The RGB color notation represents each color channel (red, green and blue) with a value between 0 and 255. In total, these notations give access to 16,777,216 colors. These notations are simply 3 different ways to specify a color, and any of these 3 doesn't give you access to any additional colors. Using color on the web, whether this is via CSS, HTML or JavaScript, is done using a color code notation like RGB, HSL or HEX. □ This tool is made possible thanks to iro.js and chroma.js, two awesome JavaScript libraries to play with colors. Tints consist of the original color mixed with various degrees of white, shades mix the color with various degrees of black and tones are a mix of the colors with various degrees of neutral gray.įor more color palettes, check out pppalette, a simple color palette generator and hhhue, a curated collection of color palettes. This can help refine the color, or help build a cohesive color palette for your web design projects. ✨ For the selected color, you also get color palettes with tints, shades, tones, warmer colors and cooler colors. So for example, if you're looking to convert rgb to hex, or hex to hsl, this tool will help you do just that. □ I also wanted to make it easy to copy and convert the color values in different formats like RGB(a), HSL(a), hex or 8-digit hex (with alpha), so that as web designers we can stop finicking around with formatting our color values and can get on to what we do best. □ I wanted to create a color picker for CSS & HTML that's clean and elegant, without clutter and where we see a large preview of the selected color. ![]() It's bright, cute, colorful, and endlessly charming. ![]() AR-Y 26 is filled with adorably boggle-eyed creatures as well as ferocious predators, and there's a dark silliness to it all that plays into its Dr. The best part is that every last element serves as a comedic vehicle. This gives the game a Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon quality where I feel compelled to find more creature descriptions and lore entries just to see what they say, because it's usually hilarious. Speaking of creature descriptions: your main method of cataloging the planet's flora and fauna is a Metroid Prime-style scanner, and this quickly became one of my favorite features in Journey to the Savage Planet. Sure, scanning enemies and puzzle pieces gave me helpful hints, but I was mainly in it for the laughs. My first entry was for a Pufferbird which, as my sardonic, Glados-esque AI overseer informed me, totally loves me. I was picking up what this game was putting down by this point, so I knew I was going to be doing terrible things to this Pufferbird in the near future, so I apologized in advance. "Journey to the Savage Planet is bright, cute, colorful, and endlessly charming" Sure enough, not 10 minutes later, I lured it into what I can only describe as a venus flytrap wood chipper so that I could open a door. Some creatures aren't as naive as Pufferbirds and require a more forceful touch, which brings us to the game's simple but serviceable action. Your main weapon is a laser pistol with infinite ammo (but a limited magazine), and you've also got a grappling hook and jetpack to get around, as well as consumables which fuel an array of gadgets I won't spoil. You can dash to avoid incoming enemies or projectiles, slide under and into gaps, and mantle up ledges. ![]() In an experiment begun in the 1960s, 100,000 gallons of the cleaning fluid perchloroethylene (C 2Cl 4 containing 2 × 10 30 atoms of 37Cl) has been used as the neutrino detector: a few chlorine atoms in the molecules of the cleaning fluid interact with solar neutrinos to produce argon. Because the reaction rate is very temperature dependent, astronomers have, in essence, a means of determining the true central temperature of the Sun to compare with the prediction of the Standard Solar Model. Measurement of the number of these neutrinos arriving at Earth then allows deduction of the number of reactions occurring in the core of the Sun. The boron to beryllium reaction in the proton‐proton cycle, however, has a special significance for scientists on Earth this neutrino is a high‐energy neutrino that has the greatest possibility of being experimentally detected at Earth via the reaction Originally believed to be massless, they travel essentially at the speed of light and have an extremely low likelihood of ever reacting again with other forms of matter. In searching for a means of testing whether these calculations were correct, scientists realized that the neutrinos coming from the nuclear reactions would allow such a test. Our understanding of the central region of the Sun is based solely on theoretical calculations. ![]() ![]() SETI-The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.Internal Structure Standard Solar Model.Interior Structure: Core, Mantle, Crust.Minor Objects: Asteroids, Comets, and More.Origin and Evolution of the Solar System. ![]() Ĭounties with populations less than 250,000 have the option to adopt the merit selection process through ballot initiative. At the end of their term, the judges remain in office through uncontested retention elections every four years. In these counties, judges are appointed by the governor with the help of a selection commission. In counties with populations greater than 250,000- Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties- superior court judges are chosen through a merit selection system. Īppellate court judges as well as superior court judges in Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties stand for retention. If a victory margin is within one-half of one percent, there will be an automatic recount unless the defeated candidate provides a waiver to the recount. General electionĪrizona general elections are held on the first Tuesday in November of every even-numbered year. Candidates that advance from the partisan primary compete in the general election. Ĭandidates for the Arizona Justice Courts participate in primary elections throughout the state. Judges of the Arizona Superior Court in counties with populations under 250,000 are chosen in a partisan primary and then face nonpartisan general elections.
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