![]() ![]() The game also was the top selling game in the U.K for that week. In the week of its launch, Shadow of the Colossus sold 73% higher than the original game. In addition, it won the award for "Game, Classic Revival" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards, whereas its other nomination was for "Art Direction, Fantasy". The game was nominated for "PlayStation Game of the Year" at the Golden Joystick Awards, and won the Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake at the New York Game Awards. Tom Hurley from GamesRadar+ gave the game a score of 4 out of 5 stars saying that "Both a great remaster and an enjoyable 'new' game in its own right that takes you on a journey in a way few things can." ĩ.7/10 was Marty Sliva's score on IGN with the summary: " Shadow of the Colossus on PS4 is a stunning return to the classic that wowed us in 2005." Nick Plessas's score of 8.5/10 on EGMNow said that "Remakes can seem like the low-hanging fruit of game development, but Bluepoint does Shadow of the Colossus justice with an evolution of the classic game that improves the overall experience while maintaining its familiar spirit." For a game predicated on methodically finding and exposing these creatures' weak points, you'd be hard-pressed to find a weak point throughout the entire experience." īrett Makedonski's 10/10 score on Destructoid stated that "Nothing in this entire game is forgettable. Shadow of the Colossus received "universal acclaim" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic. The game was released on Februin North America February 7 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand and February 8 in Japan. The art staff used the PlayStation 2 version to create parity with the PlayStation 4 version. The game uses the original codebase from the PlayStation 2 game. The developers remade all the game's assets from the ground up, but the game retains the same gameplay from the original title along with the introduction of a new control scheme. Bluepoint producer Randall Lowe and technical director Peter Dalton stated in an interview with Game Informer that the original Shadow of the Colossus was on many of their employees' Top 5 of all-time list. The idea for a remake had come after a conversation Bluepoint developers had: they wanted to create a new definitive version of the original game, and after speaking with friends at Sony Japan, it was agreed upon. The remake was led by Bluepoint, who had developed the earlier PlayStation 3 remaster. Sony had announced a remake of Shadow of the Colossus for the PlayStation 4 during their Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 press conference. ![]() On a PlayStation 4 Pro, the game can run either at a 1440p resolution (upscaled to 4K) at 30 frames per second, or at a 1080p resolution at 60 frames per second. On a standard PlayStation 4, the game runs at a 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second. Players are able to choose from several options when playing. Most colossi are located in remote areas, such as atop cliffs or within ancient structures. Beginning at a central point in a landscape, the player seeks out and defeats a colossus, and is returned to the central point to repeat the process. Progression through Shadow of the Colossus occurs in cycles. The gameplay is nearly identical to the original version of the game, aside from reworked controls.
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![]() The narrative John spins in “Lennon Remembers” wasn’t present before 1971, and wasn’t confirmed by any of the others until long after. The ever-astute Lennon himself knew it was a question that had to be answered. He did that.” “We were like old Army buddies.” Possible? Sure. “Oh, nothing happened, we just grew apart.” Or “John just got bored with us and threw himself into his new life. One thing we know for sure: the conventional narrative seems to tiptoe around this issue. Or, as some have suggested, did something happen or stop happening, between him and Paul? Lennon Spins a Tale ![]() So what happened? Did Lennon suffer a meditation-induced break of some sort? It’s possible. This is simply unimaginable behavior for the Lennon we know prior to June 1968. But by June 1968, not only is John very with Yoko, he’s apparently very angry with Paul, and so alienated that he’s allowing Yoko to speak for him in meetings. In late 1967, there is no external evidence that the group dynamic is any different than it had been in, say, 1965. Certainly John and Paul were the victim of such talk - Lennon himself mentioned it in the Interview self-interview.Įxcept: there is a moment in the history of the Beatles where John and Paul’s friendship shatters, more or less irrevocably, and any thoughtful fan has to ask “why?” Before June 1968, John loved Paul after, he seems to have straight up hated him. That’s bullshit, and we shouldn’t make those restrictions stronger. Male gender roles are pathetically restrictive any close friendship between men is plagued with rumors of sex. ![]() This may strike some of our readers as giving a outrageous topic more serious attention than it deserves, and to some degree I agree with them. (This just in, courtesy of commenter according to a new interview with Yoko Ono, John “ had a desire to have sex with men.” If this is true, and why not, and John loved Paul, and why not… why not?) Basically, it’s the old question of John’s attraction to Paul, and whether it was sexual in nature and furthermore, whether the friendship of these two men - undeniably close in every other way between 1957-68 - ever became sexual in nature as well. There’s a topic simmering in a few comment threads at once, and so I thought I’d surface the topic as a post. Integrations: HeySpace integrates with Gmail, Trello, Zapier, Integromat, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Calendar.
![]() They can be armed to the teeth with weapons and deal enormous damage. Neutron Battleship Stellaris Battleship Design - The Final Class You Needīattleships are the sledgehammers of your fleet, they are the last of the standard spacecraft you unlock in a playthrough. An artillery computer gives your cruisers an enormous first strike range, they can wipe out chunks of the enemy fleet before the mid-range engagement weaponry can kick inĢ.2 Tracking boosters in the auxiliary slot will maximize the designs lethality.Use shields, then leave at least 2 slots for armor, using more armor is expensive but might be worth it to enable your cruiser to survive longer (especially if the enemy is using lots of anti shield weaponry).For weapons equip 1 large energy weapon, 1 large kinetic weapon, and a medium energy weapon (best technology you have available, obviously).Large slot weapons also deal a heavy chunk of damage to enemy cruisers and battleships.High burst damage eliminates ships before they can escape, wipe them out… all of them.This design decimates destroyer swarms, but it does struggle against corvettes, make sure to support it.2 Large weapons bring the max possible destructive power a mid-game fleet can equip.Why the Heavy Artillery Cruiser is great: A screen of corvettes and destroyers ensures you minimize your losers plus maximize your destructive power. However, your cruisers need some protection and they need a little bit of support. You use cruisers as early-game flagships, they have the highest destructive power in the mid-game. Heavy Artillery Cruiser Stellaris Cruiser Design - The Twilight ClassĬruisers are the first heavy-hitting ship you’ll gain access to in a playthrough, they’re much more expensive but they’re orders of magnitude tankier than corvettes and destroyers. An artillery computer system will give you the maximum engagement range, but you can get some use out of a line computer in the early gameģ.Put a tracking booster in your auxiliary slot to boost the destroyer's lethality.Fill your defense slots with shields and use no more than 2 slots on armor.For weapons, use a plasma launcher in the early game, combine this with a kinetic weapon.Once your technology allows it, upgrading to a neutron launcher will give you the highest possible damage on a destroyer.Your large weapons will be more effective because destroyers receive a bonus in weapon tracking.Using a large slot weapon gives destroyers maximum firepower, allowing you to take out other destroyers and starbases faster.A higher disengagement chance also makes destroyers much more survivable than corvettes, many more will escape rather than being blown to smithereens. They aren’t as quick as corvettes but combine decent evasion with much higher max damage potential.ĭestroyers should be the backbone of your fleet in the early game. They can equip more guns than corvettes and are generally more adaptable. ![]() Artillery Destroyer Stellaris Destroyer Design - The Hit & Run Mastersĭestroyers are the second tier of ships you’ll unlock in Stellaris. Use a picket computer setting, as you gain no bonus evasion from a swarm computerĤ.Shields are the most cost-effective defense, armour just makes these corvettes cost more alloys than they need to.For weaponry, you’ll be using a kinetic and missile weapon.You can use a fleet of these to buy time or act as a very mobile raiding force.Biggest bang for your buck, this a quick, cheap harasser to send right at your enemy.The Corvette's high evasion gives it survivability against bigger, more powerful weapons that would otherwise devastate it.Having a huge missile salvo from your corvettes gives you high first-strike potential.They are great harassers but generally speaking, don’t do that much damage. It doesn’t matter if you lose a few because you can quickly replace them. Think of corvettes as an expandable screen. Their sole purpose is to tie the enemy up and distract attention away from your bigger, more valuable ships. Corvettes are quick, cheap to build, and smaller but have high evasion. ![]() Speaking in tongues is not supposed to be a mystical exercise that bypasses the mind. But let’s lay that issue aside for the moment and simply point out that whenever tongues is spoken, whether in public or in private, whether in prophecy or in prayer, an interpretation is always to be sought.Ģ. ![]() Paul was not authorizing the use of tongues as a private prayer language, as some charismatics claim. Even if the tongues-speaker is praying alone and no one else is around to hear, he is to pray that he may interpret. In other words, if someone is authentically speaking in tongues, the utterance contains a message, and the message must be translated for those who hear. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.” Verse 13: “One who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.” And verses 27-28: “If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. So Paul insists that whenever tongues are spoken, they should be translated. If the tongue is merely gibberish and has no translatable message, it is actually worse than a savage tongue. All true language has a meaning, and if the meaning cannot be understood, it sounds like the noises of a troglodyte. I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me” (NASB). The ecstatic gibberish of the modern charismatic movement does not even fit the apostle’s definition of a language.įurthermore, he says in verse 11, “If. Throughout the chapter, he is talking about real languages with real meaning. “There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning” (1 Corinthians 14:10). Sounds and syllables without meaning are of no use whatsoever. Paul is clearly no proponent of any kind of “speech that is not intelligible” (1 Corinthians 14:9). I want to take a more big-picture perspective of the text and point out a few of that chapter’s most important ideas. The real point of 1 Corinthians 14 is often buried under endless arguments about the exegetical nuances of that passage. ![]() That principle has been largely ignored-and often diametrically opposed-in the doctrine and practice of the modern charismatic movement. “I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue” (1 Corinthians 14:19). The point Paul makes repeatedly is that the gifts should always be used in a way that enlightens and instructs the mind. The whole theme of the apostle’s admonition about how the gifts were to function is neatly summarized in 1 Corinthians 14:40: “All things should be done decently and in order.” Along the way, it’s hard to miss the stress the apostle places on that which edifies. A goodly portion of Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians is focused on correcting that congregation’s abuse of spiritual gifts-tongues in particular. ![]() ![]() Ryzen with Radeon Vega Graphics and 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen with Radeon Graphics processors support x8 speedġ x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (PCI_E4, supports x4 mode) Supports 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen/ Ryzen with Radeon Vega Graphics and 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen with Radeon Graphics/ Athlon with Radeon Vega Graphics Desktop Processors for Socket AM4ġst, 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen processors support x16 speed The MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX II comes with 03 years of warranty. You can simply use a USB key to flash any BIOS within seconds, without installing a CPU, memory, or graphics card. Supports 2-Way AMD Crossfire (Multi GPU). In this motherboard, the Advanced technology to deliver pure data signals for the best gaming performance and stability with With STEEL ARMOR PCI-E slots. This AMD motherboard is consists of a premium layout and fully digital power design to support more cores and provide better performance. From this motherboard, you will get Lightning Fast Game experience which is consists of 1x TURBO M.2, AMD Turbo USB 3.2 GEN2, Store MI technology. This motherboard is designed with Extended Heatsink Design that MSI extended PWM heatsink and enhanced circuit design ensure even high-end processors to run at full speed. The MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX II Motherboard is Supports 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen/ Ryzen with Radeon Vega Graphics and 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen with Radeon Graphics / Athlon with Radeon Vega Graphics Desktop Processors for Socket AM4 with DDR4 Memory, up to 4133(OC) MHz. MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX II AMD AM4 ATX Motherboard Within the Settings menu, select “Wireless & VPN”. On your Fire tablet, swipe down from the notification bar and click on the “Settings” icon. Configuring and Activating the VPNĪrmed with your VPN’s info, entering the VPN is a straightforward affair. If you’re sticking with Amazon’s built-in VPN settings, however, read on. Once you’ve done that, you can easily follow along with our guide to using VPNs on Android, where we talk in more detail about using official and third-party OpenVPN apps. Instead, if you want to use beefier VPN protocols on your Fire tablet, you’ll most likely need to either sideload a VPN app’s APK or insntall the Google Play Store on your Fire tablet (which is so much better than relying on the Amazon App Store that you should do it anyway). If you wish to use OpenVPN on your Fire tablet, we recommend checking to see if your VPN provider has a companion application that would make the process easy for you (but unfortunately the chances of this are very low). This software program additionally comes with added safety. Eweka was established in 2001, making it a long-standing trusted Usenet supplier. ![]() Eweka When you’re within the European Union (EU), a greater dependable Usenet supplier can be Eweka. RELATED: How to Sideload Apps Onto Your Amazon Fire Tablet Newshosting gives a time-tested dependable service that has tailored alongside VPN expertise. In addition to the inherent limitation of using Android, there is also the limitation of the Amazon Appstore: there is a very paltry selection of third party VPN apps and no official OpenVPN app to speak of. RELATED: What Is a VPN, and Why Would I Need One?īecause each VPN provider has its own settings (server addresses, etc.) it’s important that you take a moment to review the help files for your VPN provider of course (or the information your workplace sent you on the matter) as you’ll need the specific information for your specific VPN later in the tutorial.Īdditionally, it’s important to know that we’ll be using the built-in VPN functionality in the Fire OS which, because Fire OS is an Android derivative, has the same limitations of Android’s VPN support-that means it supports the IPSec, L2TP, and PPTP protocols right out of the box but does not support OpenVPN. While you’re at it, we also have some great recommendations for VPN providers with tips on how to pick one that best fits your needs. Obviously you need a Fire tablet but you also need a VPN of some sort-if you’ve heard about VPNs (and that they’re good for privacy) but you’re not really sure about them, be sure to check out our guide to what a VPN is and why you might want to use one. To follow along with today’s tutorial, you only need a few things. ![]() Types of sourcesĪrc lamps of the elements such as hydrogen, helium, neon, krypton, sodium, and mercury have a number of spectral lines from electron transitions that can be readily observed. These filters are called order sorting filters. # m \lambda=# 3(450)nm (violet)=2(675)nm (red), (the third order violet appears at the same location as the second order red), so that it is sometimes necessary to employ optical bandpass filters at the entrance slit to block light from unwanted portions of the spectrum that come from a different order # m #. There will be some overlap in these rainbows. There is also the #m=0 # maximum, which is the white light image of the specular reflection of the entrance slit. Each of these rainbows is from a different order, e.g. If one places a screen in the focal plane of the second spherical mirror while using a white light source, one will see a series of rainbows, unlike a prism spectrometer, where there is only one rainbow. For commonly used dyes and high numerical aperture oil immersion objectives, this resolution limit is on the order of 250300 nm. Thereby one can determine the wavelength of an unknown source, or calibrate the x-axis of a measured spectrum. In very simple form, the primary maxima from a diffraction grating for wavelength # \lambda # are found at angles # \theta # that satisfy # m \lambda=d \sin # corresponds to the angle that the grating is rotated on its axis, or #\lambda=\lambda(x) #, where #x# is the position in the focal plane. It is hoped that upon reading this article, the reader will have a good understanding of how a diffraction grating spectrometer works.įor a diffraction grating spectrometer, the grating is the dispersive element instead of a prism. It is rather remarkable how the standard textbook equations can be used to tell most everything one needs to know in order to understand the complete operation of the instrument. It really makes no difference when it comes to determining the diffraction limit. A larger sensor as you say can have larger pixels but it can also have smaller ones. These can be a little tricky the first couple times through. The sensor size itself has no influence in the equation. Example 1 Use the definition of the limit to prove the following limit. The operation of the instrument is based upon the textbook equations for the far-field interference (Fraunhofer case) that results from a plane wave incident on a diffraction grating. Diffraction depends on the aperture and pixel size. In this article we will discuss the fundamentals of the diffraction grating spectrometer. A summary of the results that we will compute below.A more advanced formula that we will use. ![]() She did not understand her legal rights, including what an attorney could do for her. The brief continued: “…the tactics police used with Geyser may have passed muster with a fully-functional adult, but Geyser was far from that. “Geyser believed that if she did not do what Slender Man wanted- namely to kill to become his proxy- he would, in turn, kill her or her family.” “Of course, Slender Man had never actually visited Geyser the interactions were a hallucination and a byproduct of her mental illness,” the court brief continued. “The juvenile court, not the adult court, had exclusive jurisdiction over her crime, and the circuit court should have discharged her adult-court case following her preliminary hearing,” it read. Geyser’s Attorneys Argue That She Didn’t Belong in Adult CourtĪccording to Courthouse News and Wisconsin appellate court records, Geyser’s attorneys filed a 46-page brief on her behalf with Wisconsin state appellate courts in 2019. According to USA Today, an expert told the court during her 2018 sentencing that “after her psychotropic medications were adjusted… Geyser has not shown any symptoms of psychosis and is open about treatment, never resists taking her medication and has never been violent or aggressive.” It was revealed in court that Geyser has schizophrenia. They will probably go away and fade eventually.” “I’ve come to accept all of the scars that I have,” Leutner said to ABC’s David Muir. Geyser’s attorney’s are appealing her case, arguing she shouldn’t have been tried in adult court because she is mentally ill. Geyser are in the custody of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.” The state Department of Health Services wrote, “Under patient privacy laws we cannot confirm or deny whether a specific individual was at one of our facilities or offer any other information.”ĪBC News reported that although Geyser “may periodically petition for release from the hospital in the future, she will be under institutional supervision for that time.” According to USA Today, the way it works is that people confined to mental institutions can “petition for conditional release every six months, if treating staff support the move.” A judge would have to approve this though. Weier(‘s) 25th birthday.” In October 2019, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections confirmed to Heavy, “Neither Ms. Weier take all prescribe mediation.” The defense requested “institutional care (until) Ms. Court records say that the state requested “the maximum amount of institutional care of 25 years and that Ms. Court orders placement as Institutional Care.” Both the State and Defense stipulate to the institutional care. Online court records in her case state that the “court orders the defendant to be committed to the Department of Health Services for 40 YEARS commencing 2/1/18…Court further finds that conditional release would pose a significant risk of bodily injury to the defendant or others. According to Wisconsin court records, Geyser was found “Guilty but Not Guilty Due to Mental Disease/Defect.” Weier was too. ![]() That’s because both today are being held in mental health institutions, not state prisons. Neither Geyser nor Weier is listed in the state of Wisconsin adult offenders database, which tracks where people are in prison. ![]() Tonight on our 2-hour 20/20, shares his latest new interviews and details from the 'Slender Man' case. It is a rare scene – two 12-year-old girls describe to police how they lured and attacked their friend with a knife in the woods. She had no prior experience with the criminal justice system and seven needed tutoring three weeks after the interrogation to understand how various legal concepts applied to her situation.” Morgan was “suffering from an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness. Amici urge this Court to clarify the appropriate standards for assessing whether a twelve year old can knowingly and intelligently waive her Miranda rights.” The juvenile centers wrote that the “lower court’s ruling that Morgan Geyser, a 12 year old child suffering from hallucinations at the time she spoke to police, voluntarily, intelligently, and knowingly waived her Miranda rights failed to appropriately account for her young age. In 2009, the Juvenile Law Center, Center for Juvenile Law & Policy and Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth filed a brief with Wisconsin appellate courts arguing on Geyser’s behalf. See Weier’s Wisconsin court record page here, and Geyser’s here. The case is listed as awaiting for decision. ![]() Several updates have been added, including: Learn more about this update on the Tech Community and the AI Blog, or download visual assets.Īzure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics, giving customers the freedom to query data on their terms, at scale. Customers can use large volumes of the service at a discount by making regular payments up front for a set capacity. A commitment tier pricing model for Azure Cognitive Services designed to give high-volume customers a more cost-efficient, predictable and scalable alternative to the current pay-as-you-go model.This improves the developer experience by providing different language capabilities in a single place versus multiple services. Azure Cognitive Service for Language consolidates capabilities previously available in Text Analytics, QnA Maker and Language Understanding into a unified service, while also introducing the new Language Studio. ![]() Other updates for Azure Cognitive Services that are now available include: OpenAI Service is currently available by invitation only. With responsible AI controls and advanced fine tuning, customers can apply these models to their most mission-critical apps. The new service can be applied to a variety of use cases from summarization to content and code generation. ![]() Are you getting the information and context you need? What can we do to make the experience ever better next time?Īzure OpenAI Service is a new Azure Cognitive Service that provides customers access to OpenAI’s GPT-3 models with enterprise capabilities such as security, compliance and scale requirements that are available only on Azure. I hope that you can join us.Īs always, send us your feedback! We want to know how we can do better. We have a great lineup of news and some really exciting moments planned for this year’s Ignite. Fundamentally, we are moving into an era in which people expect their digital data to be available anywhere, at any time and on any device. There is no question that the past year and a half has been a catalyst for structural change in every industry, from the adoption of telehealth in healthcare, to digital wallets in financial services, to curbside pick-up and contactless shopping in retail.ĭigital technology will be more necessary than ever, for every organization, in every sector. The Microsoft Cloud powers an organization’s digital capability, while providing the safeguards necessary to keep data confidential and secure. The backdrop for our news at Ignite is the Microsoft Cloud. We will welcome more than 100,000 global attendees across a variety of industries to experience our latest and greatest technologies while also getting a sneak peek at new products and services that will be coming in the future. Microsoft Ignite is a seminal moment for our company. Our standing goal remains as it has always been – to make it as easy as possible for you to navigate all the latest information and provide key details on the topics you are most interested in. ![]() Our goal with the Book of News is to provide you with a guide to all the announcements we are making, with all the detail you need. Welcome everyone to Microsoft Ignite, and once again we have a book’s worth of news about Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, Security, Power Platform, AI and much more. |
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