The website is also available in multiple languages. The website of Inkscape is very helpful with learning resources and a robust community. The images remain sharp and are not pixelated. ![]() It makes working with vectors smooth and easy as quality is maintained in resized images. This is not a common thing among 'free' software. That's the beauty of opensource applications, bringing people from all works of life who share the same goal or dream.įor users that might have issues or challenges with the software, there is a large number of community volunteers willing to offer help and answer user questions. Meaning it costs no money and you can also make contributions to its development. The interface is not customizable with bugs once a while. When compared to paid software like Adobe Photoshop, Inkscape is. But for more advanced work, the interface needs to be upgraded. The Inkscape interface to me is simple and concise for basic graphics work. This is to be achieved without making the interface too complex. That is why major software companies spend a lot of time and resources to seeing that they come up with an interface that is friendly, enticing and complete. The feeling can either make you feel at home or completely throw you off balance. InterfaceĪn interface is a major deciding factor whether a user will continue to use a software or not. This is to say, with little hard disk space, you can run Inkscape. After installation, it occupies a space of about 375 MB. The installation process was fast and simple with no hitches. This is made possible by a large community of opensource contributors. Almost everyone who uses a computer uses one of the platforms above.Įxecutable file size for installation is about 80 MB and is available in 90 languages. Inkscape is available on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, FreeBSD and Web-based. It is light and runs smoothly except in cases where I try to execute large or high-resolution images. I currently run mine on a 2.40 GHz processor with 8 GB of RAM. To successfully run Inkscape, the minimum requirement is 1 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format and is free and open-source software. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. It had its initial release about fifteen years ago in 2003 and has grown to give similar paid software a run for their money. Inkscape is free and opensource under the GNU General Public License. I used Inkscape version 0.92.3 released on for this review. I mostly use Inkscape to resize images and maintain still maintain the initial image quality I combine both when working for different purposes. I also have a limited license for Adobe Illustrator. ![]() I have been using Inkscape to handle my vector graphics work.
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![]() Run vagrant suspend in Terminal or select Tools | Vagrant | Suspend from the main menu. Suspend: suspending an instance pauses all the processes and saves the current state of a virtual machine. To find a full list of available Vagrant commands, refer to Command-Line-Interface. In this article, we show only the most important commands to work with the virtual machine. They can be run either from Terminal ( Alt+F12) or from the main menu. To control an instance, use Vagrant commands. Open the embedded Terminal ( Alt+F12) and run the following command: vagrant ssh When the virtual machine is launched, it runs on a backend. Open the embedded Terminal ( Alt+F12) and run the following command: vagrant up.įrom the main menu, choose Tools | Vagrant | Up. Once the Vagrantfile initialization is completed and virtual box is specified, you are ready to deploy and run the virtual machine. To change the default root folder for the virtual boxes, open the Settings dialog ( Control+Alt+S), select Tools | Vagrant and change the Instance folder location. ![]() In the Boxes window click the button and specify the following:Īll the downloaded boxes are stored in the location of the Vagrantfile. In the Settings dialog ( Control+Alt+S), select Tools | Vagrant. Open the Vagrantfile and change config.vm.box = "base" line to the following: config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64". To find a list of available virtual boxes, refer to Discovering Vagrant Boxes. You can specify any other virtual box based on your needs. It contains a basic Ubuntu virtual machine. Specify the virtual boxĪs an example, we will specify the ubuntu/trusty64 box. The config.vm.box = "." line specifies the virtual box that will be used in a project. You will see that Vagrantfile already has a predefined configuration. In the Project tool window Alt+1, switch to the Project files view and double-click the Vagrantfile to open it in the embedded editor. This will initialize the Vagrantfile and put it into your project root folder by default.įrom the main menu, choose Tools | Vagrant | Init in Project Root and select the target root folder from the opened window. Open the embedded Terminal ( Alt+F12) and run the following command: vagrant init To start working with Vagrant, you need to initialize the Vagrantfile. Make sure virtualization is enabled on your computer. Install Vagrant and Oracle's VirtualBox applications. Install and enable Vagrant plugin as described in Installing plugins from JetBrains Marketplace. ![]() In this article, we will explain how to initialize the Vagrantfile, specify the virtual box, run and interact with the virtual machine from IntelliJ IDEA. Vagrant works with different providers of virtual boxes, such as Oracle's VirtualBox, VMWare or AWS. Virtual box: a virtual sandbox that contains a preconfigured virtual machine. Vagrantfile: the main configuration file that defines the Vagrant environment, stores all the configuration for the virtual boxes and tells Vagrant how to work with virtual machines. In the context of working with Vagrant, you will meet the following definitions: IntelliJ IDEA provides a full integration with Vagrant allowing you to configure the Vagrant virtual environment, control the behavior of virtual machines, and execute Vagrant commands from within your project. Vagrant is a command-line utility used to manage the lifecycle of virtual machines. ![]() Saulfabreg - was bored once again so i decided to recompile the emulator MAME Wii 1.0 (a port of MAME 0.134u4 for the Nintendo Wii) made originally by ToadKing, against devkitPPC r26 with some updated libOGC 1.8.16 and portlibs, also i have modified a liitle code basing on some work from other people, for bring a complete experience on MAME Wii. Source code of this mod can be found here: (Thanks there's some interest in this old but goodie emulator, i decided to recompile it and add these tiny but cool features all in one mod of this emu. Increased ROM limit number from 150 to 10000 (thanks for help with that).Fixed one thing in the code (PAL574 to PAL576 variable) for be able to compile on devkitPPC r26 (based on quick fix he made for compile Descent-Wii).Compiled with devkitPPC r26 / libOGC 1.8.16 / some updated portlibs, this arcade emulator now can accept newer Wiimotes (the Wii Remote Plus ones).The things that difference from the original MAME Wii 1.0 are: ![]() It's only available as a 64-bit download.I was bored once again so i decided to recompile the emulator MAME Wii 1.0 (a port of MAME 0.134u4 for the Nintendo Wii) made originally by ToadKing, against devkitPPC r26 with some updated libOGC 1.8.16 and portlibs, also i have modified a liitle code basing on some work from other people, for bring a complete experience on MAME Wii. Previous versions of the operating system shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista having been tested. MAME can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. The source code for MAME should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software. ![]() The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. MAME is available for free and released under the open source GPLv2 license on Windows from console emulators. Visuals: Enhanced graphics and improved filters.Updates: Regular updates with new features.Save states: Save and restore game progress.Open source: Open source development platform.Network play: Play with other players online.Input: Control via keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or joystick.Hacks: Access to various hacks and patches.Expansion: Extensive range of options to customize gameplay.Debugging: Debug options for game developers.Compatibility: Plays thousands of classic games.Arcade emulation: Recreates the original arcade experience. ![]() Accuracy: Highly accurate emulation of original hardware.This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions, thanks to the talent of programmers from the MAME team and from other contributors. As gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these important "vintage" games from being lost and forgotten. MAME's purpose is to preserve these decades of video-game history. Therefore, these games are NOT simulations, but the actual, original games that appeared in arcades. MAME becomes the "hardware" for the games, taking the place of their original CPUs and support chips. The ROM images that MAME utilizes are "dumped" from arcade games' original circuit-board ROM chips. MAME can currently emulate over 3000 unique (and over 5400 in total) classic arcade video games from the three decades of video games - '70s, '80s and '90s, and even some from the current millennium. With the help of MAME you have the possibility to quickly emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games. When used in conjunction with an arcade game's data files (ROMs), MAME will more or less faithfully reproduce that game on a PC. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. An arcade simulator supporting a plethora of ROMs ![]() No one wanted to be there either, but you made the best of it.Īnd of course the ‘Friends’ shop – which would have been great - shut at 5.00pm and won’t be open again until 9.00am tomorrow. I imagine it must have been like this in the London Underground stations during the war, when people were sheltering during the Blitz. Once you’ve given up hope, stories can be heard, comedy can flourish. And you see it here in the peeling paint, in a system over-stretched in a main hospital entrance door that won’t close.īut we make the best of it because we’re British. ![]() In a recent survey, in which people were asked for a word to describe Britain at present, by far the most common word was ‘Broken’. It’s cold because the main entrance door is broken and cannot be closed, so the chill wind blows in. It’s surprisingly cold tonight and people ask for blankets, but supply is limited. The waiter arrives at his table and says ‘Your food is not ready - nor will it ever be.’ It reminds me of the cartoon, in which a customer waits for service in Café Disappointment. However cheerily they arrive, all abandon hope straight away, which is the best way to handle the A&E experience, where hope can kill, waiting fr your name to be called. And not much ‘hotel’ either, which particularly irritates her husband.īut the ‘five hour’ warning works its magic. Only she tripped over leaving the hotel for the first event and there’ll be no dancing for a while. ‘I was really looking forward to it,’ she says. ![]() Next to us are a couple who’ve come from Surrey to Eastbourne for a dance weekend. Who does? We are a gathering of ruined evenings of people for whom things have not worked out tonight some, shockingly so. Or, as the A&E sign put it on Saturday night, ‘Expect to wait for five hours from your arrival time’. Wassef’s appointment at Clemenger BBDO follows the recent appointments of Anita Zanesco to the newly created role of chief growth officer and two managing partners – Georgie Winton and Anita Deutsch.Posted by Simon Parke, 07 August 2023, 10.51am Of his new appointment, Wassef said: “When Clemenger calls, you have to answer. He serves on the AdCouncil DE&I Committee judges Creative Strategy for AWARD and teaches Advanced Strategy for AdSchool. The multi-awarded Wassef has won the Grand EFFIE, APG UK Gold, Jay Chiat Gold and David Ogilvy Gold. Wassef has worked across leading international and Australian brands, including IKEA, Qantas, adidas, Absolut, Samsung, HSBC, Red Bull, Electronic Arts, Guinness, Google, Johnnie Walker, Volvo, Panadol, Westfield, Nike and Beats By Dre. She is currently contracting at Publicis-owned creative shop Leo Burnett. Wassef’s predecessor, Jacqueline Witts left Clems after more than three years in the business as head of planning and then chief strategy officer. I’m so excited.”īassil, of course, is no stranger to confident statements, recently telling B&T that she expects “very few agencies” in Australia to produce work at Clems’ level this year. Besides being one of the smartest people I’ve met, he’s funny and kind. The experience is the brand and the fact he is so expert in both realms is exactly what we’ve needed in this leadership role. The fact he’s bringing all this experience to Clemenger is a game-changer for us. He’s worked everywhere I’ve ever wanted to work, R/GA London, Sid Lee Amsterdam. “Simon really is one of the best in the business if not THE best. ![]() Wassef’s wealth of experience includes more than 20 years working in Europe, the US and Australia: three years at R/GA in London, three years at SID LEE in Amsterdam, plus stints at Droga5, AMV BBDO, AKQA and Host Sydney.Ĭlemenger BBDO CEO, Dani Bassil (left in lead image), said she is thrilled to have Wassef on board. Prior to that, he was chief strategy officer at TBWA\Chiat\Day in Los Angeles. Prior to his new gig, Wassef spent more than two and a half years as national chief strategy officer at whiteGREY. Wassef has come full circle, having first worked at Clemenger 21 years ago as a junior account planner. Wassef will lead strategy and customer experience across the Clemenger business and his remit will include growth, new business, elevation of talent and new practices. Simon Wassef (right) has rejoined Clemenger BBDO as chief strategy and experience officer to expand the agency’s existing CX capabilities. Instead, a group of CGI wolves make themselves known, and we have to watch the brave Chinese soldiers fight against said wolves via rather awkward actor vs. The whole time various characters have been referring to themselves as wolves, so I was expecting the other team to show up and for some action to take place. But wait, before any of that, in one very confusing scene Jing and his team suddenly fall quiet, before whispering that there are wolves on the way. Their training is interrupted however by the arrival of Scott Adkins and his gang, who do terribly intimidating things like spray paint a rock with Chinese characters which read ‘Chinese Boy Scouts’, even though none of the mercenaries can speak Chinese, let alone write it. The game pits his team, led my mainland actor Shi Zhao Qi, against another, led by the leader of the Wolf Division played by Yu Nan, who you may recognize as the only good thing about Expendables II. Jing is soon recruited to Wolf Division, and dropped in the jungle close to the border in which he has to take part in a training excercise. Unfortunately, after such a strong opening, things take a turn for the worse. While there’s not a single kick or punch thrown by either Jing or Adkins, the quality of what’s on display means you don’t even notice. Likewise Scott Adkins and his posse also make an impressive entrance, blowing a house to smithereens, and unleashing a minigun against several police cars to devastating effect. There are plenty of explosions, all of them real, and several of which utilize some unique POV reaction shots when they go off, thanks to all the soldiers seemingly wearing cameras somewhere on their person (it’s never clear exactly where). Wolf Warriors opens strongly, the first 15 minutes being filled with some impressive action sequences. ![]() Mid-way through, the script seems to realize it needs to give the terrorists some reason for doing what they’re doing, so it’s explained in a throwaway comment that they’re planning to make a virus using Chinese DNA which will only kill Chinese people. Jing’s actions are considered risky, but ultimately he’s promoted to the Wolf Division, a team which is “the special force of special forces.” Trouble comes though when the brother of the terrorist Jing killed discovers his whereabouts, and sends a team of elite foreign mercenaries, led by Adkins, to have him killed. The story itself opens with Wu Jing’s character, who’s an expert sniper, skillfully taking our a terrorist from ‘somewhere in South East Asia’, who’s threatening to put a bullet in the head of a hostage. Still, when you have talent in front of the camera like they do here, who cares!? It may be shot in 3D and feature some worthy explosions and pyrotechnics, but there’s no denying that Wolf Warrior is a far cry from the budget of other mainland-centric productions such as Switch. It becomes apparent very quickly that the budget of Wolf Warrior dictates that, if you must make a comparison to a similarly themed movie, then the 1991 Moon Lee action flick Angel Force would be a much more favorable effort. It may come as no surprise to hear that those expecting a 2015 version of Sammo Hung’s masterpiece Eastern Condors will be sourly disappointed. Adkins was enough to wet any action movie fans appetite, and rightly so. At one point it was even speculated that Vincent Zhao had joined the cast, but in the second film in as many years (the first being 2014’s Special ID), in the final product he was nowhere to be found. ![]() With a cast led by Jing himself, starring alongside British martial arts sensation Scott Adkins (credited as Scott Edward Adkins for some reason), the potential was there for greatness. It left people with little doubt that his latest effort was essentially going to be a 90 minute commercial for the Chinese army, the question was, would it be a good one? While Legendary Assassin was very much a Hong Kong movie, the publicity posters for Wolf Warrior gave us a clear indication of what to expect, displaying Jing in a variety of heroic poses set against the backdrop of the Chinese flag. ![]() Cast: Wu Jing, Yu Nan, Scott Adkins, Kyle Shapiro, Ni Dahong, Zhou Xiaoou, Shi Zhaoqi, Deng Ziyi, Tian Miaomiao, Ma Qiang, Chris Collins, Shan JiachenĪfter the lukewarm reception of Wu Jing’s 2008 directorial debut Legendary Assassin, 7 years on and 2015 sees him returning to the directors chair for his second feature, Wolf Warrior. New utilities added to Boot Disk: Far, Notepad++ and WinMerge.Boot Disk Creator supports Network configuration for PXE.7-Zip file manager creates & extract nearly all archives (Zip, Rar, 7z, Bz2, Tar, Boot Disk System Requirementsīelow are the minimum system requirements for running the Boot Disk Processor:īelow is the list of changes made to the current version of Boot Disk.Two different file managers allow to browse directories, search, copy & move files.Image viewer previews nearly all picture types: JPG, GIF, TIF, PSD, Camera Raw….Document viewer previews PDF, CHM, XPS, eBooks: ePUB, MOBI, FB2, PRC, DjVu, CBZ.Web browser, Remote Desktop, Telnet & FTP clients and other connectivity tools.Network configurator allows to setup network connections (DHCP & pre-defined IP).Notepad, Calculator, Task Manager, Registry Editor, DiskPart, SysInfo & other PC tools. ![]() Data CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning utility & burning engine included.Disk monitoring utility controls hard disk temperature & disk S.M.A.R.T attributes.US Department of Defense (DoD 5220.22-M) compliant sanitizer securely erases disks.Recovery tool resets your Windows local user password & user’s account attributes.Low-level Disk Editor allows to inspect and edit raw disk sectors & raw file’s data.BCD Viewer & Editor allow to configure bootable partitions and disks.Partition tools allow creating/deleting/formatting volumes on HDD/SSD/USB disks.Data backup tools allow to backup volumes & disks and restore user’s data back.Recovery tools restore deleted files & data on formatted/deleted/damaged volumes.Professional version contains Windows PowerShell, WMI, iSCSI, BitLocker, SSH & more.Supports all types of IDE/SATA/SSD/SCSI disks, RAIDs, USB/USB3 Disks & Flash Cards. ![]() Supports NTFS,FAT/exFAT,ReFS,HFS+,UFS,XFS,Ext,BtrFS,JFS, CDFS,UDF recovery.Ability to load extra drivers for the specific hardware while boot & after PC boot up.Boot Disk Creator allows to specify boot settings, load drivers, scripts & user files.Boot Disk Shell has a friendly Windows-like user interface with Taskbar & Start button.64-bit (圆4) architecture speeds up software execution and optimizes RAM usage. ![]()
This is completely unrealistic on the course unless you’re Obi-Wan Kenobi - and yet here it is, bedded into EA’s serious simulation. Old Tiger Woods players will remember mashing a button during your backswing and when the ball is in mid-air in order to add extra spin and influence how the ball moves once it lands. That feeling when you sink a hole.Īt the same time, there’s some concessions to arcadey play that just don't feel in touch with the highly accurate vision of golf the game otherwise presents. It’s a realistic simulation, and one that gets ugly and slippery on the green in a way that feels characteristically accurate to the real game - even if it’ll frustrate some. Each stroke considers the wind, the loft, backspin - all of those things. There’s a familiar-feeling but ultimately new default swing mechanic, plus a three-click swing that was patched in just recently. The heart of the game is the action on the course, though, and I do really like that. ![]() It’s all familiar sports game stuff, but it all feels very surface-level, like a practice swing. Once you’re in the career mode, there’s hooks to improve that golfer through a skill tree, experience points, and gear. You’ll be lucky if you can make anything that actually resembles you beyond being broadly the right color. Probably the worst thing about the golfer representation in PGA Tour is the create-a-golfer system, which is rough and bare-bones. In most cases this is to do with 2K exclusively licensing those players - which ironically is giving our digital video game golf a whiff of the back-and-forth between the PGA Tour and the new Saudi-bankrolled LIV tournaments. Despite being coined as the ‘Road to the Masters’ game, neither is Jon Rahm, the current Masters champion. Rory and Tiger, previous faces of the EA franchise, are not in the game. What's she pointing at? Answers in the comments.Īlso scanned are players, but this is where the fresh start-up nature of things begins to rear its head. The fact that the thirty courses are mostly ones it’s difficult or near-impossible for civilian plebs to play on is, of course, an added bonus. That combines with EA’s always-gorgeous Frostbite engine to produce some truly luscious courses.Ī degree of the joy of golf is being out on the course on a nice day, for my money, and in this EA’s latest captures the sense of wonder a course can have on a good day well. Each has been painstakingly scanned with Lidar technology - used in everything from archaeology to car proximity sensors - in a lengthy and expensive process. Take the game’s 30 courses, for instance. That puts some tight constraints on what this title can accomplish - but it’s a huge positive in other areas, too. You can tell this is a first run out - a new franchise, a hard reboot, rather than picking up anywhere near where 2015’s Rory McIlroy PGA Tours left off. ![]() That fact is the main caveat in EA Sports PGA Tour, in fact. ![]() There’s only one place to experience it all, apparently. But this isn’t as simple as a return of the king moment EA is basically starting from scratch. And now EA is back on the block to take the fight to the upstart, PGA Tour 2K. The reasoning and decision-making is complicated, but the short version is much simpler: EA stopped making golf games. I say that not because of anything that is - excuse the phrase - in the game, but because of the context around the release of EA’s new golf game. ![]() The slogan of EA Sports is one of gaming’s most enduring marketing ticks - though for EA Sports PGA Tour, perhaps something else would be more appropriate. ![]() Sutherland, Will You Snail? (Video Game), Animator vs. Up_siI_on Fandoms: Battle For Dream Island (Web Series), Just Shapes & Beats (Video Game), Kirby (Video Games), Wings of Fire - Tui T. Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character DeathĪll of the internet's favourites (plus a few lesser known characters) enter a killing game? With characters like Homer and Spamton around, I see nothing that could go wrong whatsoever and they'll all make it out of there alive! :DĬurrently on Chapter 1: Deadly Life Language: English Words: 30,528 Chapters: 9/? Comments: 26 Kudos: 37 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 624.The Associated Press contributed to this report.AppleTheCreator Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa Series, Minecraft (Video Game), Roblox (Video Game), Shrek (Movies), Real Person Fiction, Kirby (Video Games), Among Us (Video Game), Super Mario & Related Fandoms, The Simpsons, Death Note (Anime & Manga), OMORI (Video Game), Battle For Dream Island (Web Series), Undertale (Video Game), Deltarune (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, SpongeBob SquarePants (Cartoon) ![]() ![]() ![]() That is that that is absolutely not something we're going to forget about. "It's not unlike what we had to do in Ukraine when we've evacuated the embassy temporarily and in the early weeks and months of the fighting and then put them back in, we fully intend to get that embassy back up and running, get those personnel back on the ground in Khartoum so that we can continue to look after the long term relationship and then the long term needs of the Sudanese people. But we still have an ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, and he's done a great job, and he's going to continue to do his duties from outside the country," Kirby said. We're simply moving the embassy personnel out of the country. "I just want to stress that we've suspended operations at the embassy, but we have not dismantled our diplomatic relations or the mechanisms to conduct diplomatic relations with Sudan. remained focused on getting the ceasefire extended for a "meaningful period of time" and eventually get the fighting factions to "start to talk about a transition to civilian authority," noting the more immediate needs of the Sudanese people and foreign nationals that are in and around Khartoum. The two rival generals, army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan and RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, have so far ignored calls for negotiations. A series of short cease-fires the past week have either failed outright or brought only intermittent lulls that allowed evacuations of hundreds of foreigners by air and land. Many fear that fighting will only escalate once evacuations of foreigners, which appeared to be in their last stages, are completed. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to last until late Thursday night. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Maria A. Embassy in Sudan embrace as they evacuate to Camp Lemonnier on Apin Djibouti. Viewing Earth at night affords us a different view of Earth's surface. Nancy French studies the effects of wildfires on forest ecosystems. Wildfires Data Pathfinder: Provides links to datasets, services and tools that can be used to aid in wildfire management and post-event evaluation. NASA Worldview Tour on Satellite Detections of Fire: įeature Article - Wildfires Can't Hide from Earth Observing Satellites: This article describes how satellite data and NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) can be used to help manage ongoing fires and track the spread of fires around the world. NASA Worldview Tour of Australian Fires: Viewing Tips: View active fires/hotspots by turning on the Active Fires/Thermal Anomalies imagery layers in NASA Worldview. This joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) image acquired on January 4, 2020, shows extensive smoke plumes from bushfires burning in New South Wales, Australia. ![]() Iceberg B49 Calves from Pine Island Glacier, Antarcticaīeginning in September 2019, Australia experienced one of their worst fire seasons on record. Mike Ramsey develops new ways to study active volcanoes and to provide data to support emergency response. To explore more volcano imagery, visit NASA's Worldview Image of the Week Archive and type “Volcano” into the search box: Įxplore Near Real-Time Data related to Ash Plumes: ĭata User Profile: Dr. The Aerosol Index is a unitless range from =5.00, where 5.0 indicates heavy concentrations of aerosols that could reduce visibility or impact human health. To see how this ejected aerosols into the atmosphere, go to NASA Worldview and turn on the Aerosol Index Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership / Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (Suomi NPP / OMPS) layer to see the high levels of aerosols shown in red. Viewing Tips: The brown plume in the center of the image is the ash plume from the eruption. This volcano is located within the Kuril Islands on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. ![]() This true-color corrected reflectance image of the ash plume from the Raikoke Volcano eruption was acquired on Jby the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, aboard NASA's Terra satellite. Raikoke Volcano Eruption, Kuril Islands, Russia To view more hurricane imagery, visit the Worldview Image of the Week Archive and type “Hurricane” into the search box: Įxplore Near Real-Time Data Related to Severe Storms: NASA Worldview Tour of Hurricane Dorian: This layer is useful for detecting clouds during the day and at night and aiding in cloud and other atmospheric feature identification and classification. Viewing Tips: Hover over the different colors in the image to see the corresponding temperature value in the Layer List in NASA Worldview. ![]() This Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-East (GOES-East) Clean Infrared (10.3μm, Band 13) image acquired on September 1, 2019, at 17:00 UTC (1:00PM ET) shows that the cloud-top brightness temperatures near the center of the hurricane are below -70☌ (-94☏). Hurricane Dorian made landfall on the Bahamas at 16:40 UTC (12:40PM ET), on Septemas a Category 5 hurricane (indicating winds greater than 155 mph). ![]() ![]() ![]() Residents of this virtual world don the roles of “ avatars“, ranging from human to inanimate objects. Since then, this premise, which has appealed to fans of cyberpunk, since its inception, has inspired a whole host of books, movies, and of course, simulations, that have evolved into contemporary MMORPGs, of which, Second Life is one of the most popular one. In 1992, Neal Stephenson’s path-breaking novel, Snow Crash, introduced the mind-blowing concept of a virtual 3D universe over the internet, called Metaverse. It is also being referenced in contemporary movies and TV series. It has led to the national governments opening virtual embassies as also the in-game business success stories are being featured in magazines like Business Week. Tierdman points out that investors poured “1.38 billion into 87 companies working on one form or another of virtual goods”, and in that investment, “one does not see much in the way of 3D innovation”.A Bit About the Game… Developed by San Francisco-based Linden Labs, Second Life was designed not as a game, but as an entire virtual universe aimed at modeling the real world in a virtual scenario. Terdiman explains how, if you have a target audience and a clear picture and avenue for your iPhone app or simple online game, it is much more to your benefit to build a simple game rather than even attempting a more complicated game. ![]() It takes an entire team to build a game like Second Life, and in the long run, the investment just really isn’t there. Terdiman points out the fact that it is much more complicated to build a game that encompasses a 3D universe rather than a simple 2D game. Do you think this is true? Are adults groomed to not be satisfied with a site like Facebook, and embark on a journey in Second Life to “actually” talk to other people? Thanks to sites like Facebook and Twitter, we’re perfectly fulfilled in the social barometer side of our online use. Obviously, the same realm of experience just doesn’t exist in games like Club Penguin, CafeWorld, FarmVille, or Webkinz.Īn interesting discussion brought up in the article is the fact that “kids today” don’t need a game like Second Life to fulfill our social needs when we log onto the internet. You can meet hundreds of people from around the world, transport yourself to wherever you want, and explore to your heart’s content. Of course, there are people that probably spend hours farming in FarmVille, but you can only get so far in a game like that. Games like Second Life are time consuming they are meant to suck you in and take hours of dedication to get anywhere. The popularity of the iPhone has obviously led to the explosion of games that are made in simple apps–games that are meant to be played for a few minutes while you wait in the lobby for your dentist appointments. Terdiman explores the question of why this popularity trend has shifted, when clearly the latter group of games is less intellectually stimulating–in fact, to most people, they’re downright boring. In his article, Daniel Terdiman explores how 3D games such as Second Life and There are slowly declining in popularity, only to be replaced by games like FarmVille, CafeWorld, Club Penguin, Webkinz, and Habbo Hotel. I stumbled upon this article last night, and it really kept me thinking as I saw more and more FarmVille and CafeWorld notifications clogging up my news feed on Facebook. |
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