![]() Once your nut prints fine, print a short threaded rod, try to change the resolution of the thread, infill,… use your imagination. (* – Depending on how old/new is your OpenSCAD you may need to change the line where the library is included, replace “include” by “use”)īecause this thing is made without much science, you’ll need to tweak a little bit, sorry…įirst print a nut (high res, see comments above), tweak the infill and/or the degrees for the shape of the thread. Use polytests.scad (*) as a user’s guide, refference, whatever. ![]() I’ve printed the threads with a very low infill (0.2) but for the nuts, setting up this value (I’ve used 0.45) helped a lot with the overhang issue.ĭo not use “polyScrewThread.scad”, in contains some bugs! Instead…ĭrop “polyScrewThread_r1.scad” into your OpenSCAD library folder or the folder where you are writing your OpenSCAD script.I’ve found that a resolution of something like 1.5mm (PI/2 is what I use the most) works very well for threads that will be used with nuts made with a resolution of 0.5mm.Just a couple of comments to help using this thing: Instead of rotate polyhedrons, this thing draws the polyhedron in a new set of points. Instead of functions, this thing uses loops. This is my humble take on a screw library to be used in your OpenSCAD scripts.Īnyway, I had this thing for months in the lost projects folder suffering from some serious issues, well some of them remain (it doesn’t render) and once the dust has been shaken it compiles quite nice and printable things. Thanks a lot to mechadense for reporting the bugs! Due to some bugs in the initial version, a revision of the OpenSCAD library has been uploaded, please use “polyScrewThread_r1.scad”.
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![]() Neutral Special: Lightning Buster Many of Mythra’s special moves carry over directly from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Lightning Buster is no exception. Similar to Ultimate’s other flagship transforming character, Pokémon Trainer, the transformation carries little endlag, suggesting that it may have utility in escaping combos and recovering when thrown off-stage. I should note that the name “Blade Switch” is nothing more than an assumption on my behalf, since even though this ability does carry over from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, it never had a specific name. Fortunately, the size of the landing attack seems to extend beyond the blade itself, making it useful for forcing opponents away.ĭown Special: Blade Switch Similar to other transformation specials, Pyra and Mythra’s Down Special has them transforming between either form. Based on its demonstration in the trailer, the rising portion of the attack doesn’t seem to carry a hitbox, meaning her recovery may be susceptible to gimping from above. As a special that rises beforing smashing down, its style is nothing that hasn’t been seen in Smash before. Up Special: Prominence Revolt Prominence Revolt is another special that looks to be straight out of Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I doubt that this “manual recovery” will be required with the sword functioning akin to a boomerang, but rather closing in near the attack’s end allows her to maintain pressure and reduce cooldown. Something else worth mentioning is the small hop Pyra performs when she retrieves her blade. The move’s initial low profile prevents it from being too overbearing and nigh-impossible to dodge, while its expansion upon contact ensures that it’s rewarding when it does connect. Given the sword’s trajectory in the clip shown, we can safely assume that the projectile itself is smaller until it connects with an opponent it also travels in the air, parallel to the ground when Pyra throws it, turning perpendicular only when it makes contact. Side Special: Blazing End Pyra’s side special, Blazing End, is somewhat toned down from its original appearance, adapting only the final portion of the attack, although it still appears as a strong and sizable projectile. Although not shown, I’d assume that Flame Nova foregoes the rising property of the spin attack for balancing reasons, and to better reflect its source material’s representation. Based on what we’ve been showing, it appears similar to the spin attack boasted by the trio of Links, but much flashier in execution. Pyra’s Neutral Special, Flame Nova, appears almost identical to its appearance in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Luckily, since Pyra and Mythra arrived from a JRPG where shouting the names of your signature moves is very fashionable, figuring out which move is which is a tad easier. Furthermore, their specials are remarkably accurate to their source material, with the majority of moves carrying over almost identically in execution. What we can state with certainty, however, is that Pyra and Mythra have a completely different set of special moves. This could suggest that their normal attacks are shared in design, but with so little overlap it’s difficult to say definitively. While Nintendo didn’t show off too much of either Blade’s normal moves, the ones that do happen to overlap seem somewhat similar. Many may have noticed this during the trailer due to their separate specials, but either way, it’s still reassuring to know the differences likely extend beyond their appearances. debut.Īrguably the most important distinction to make is one made apparent on the game’s official website : despite occupying a single character slot, Pyra and Mythra are classified as two separate characters, as fighters 79 and 80 respectively. To help out, I’ve decided to put my 400 hours of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 playtime to use and see what I can ascertain from Pyra and Mythra’s Smash Bros. While their official trailer was fairly standard length wise, there’s still a lot of details around their move-set that weren’t made absolutely clear. While Rex does show up briefly in the characters’ Final Smashes, the majority of the workload is left up to Pyra and Mythra themselves. In somewhat of a twist on Nintendo’s usual crossover strategy, the character hailing from 2017’s Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is not the game’s protagonist, Rex, but instead a tag-team of two of his companions, Pyra and Mythra, a choice arguably more popular amongst fans. A balance of serious firepower and blinding speedįor many fans, Nintendo’s first Direct in almost a year and a half started off on a high note as the company revealed the ninth fighter in Super Smash Bros. ![]()
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You, an expert Mac user, may be fine with the way things are. But for some users, the Mac’s windowing metaphor has led to confusion and frustration, whether it’s windows covering other windows or hidden or minimized windows being unfindable. For decades, it’s been a huge productivity boost to savvy Mac users, since it allows multiple panes of information of arbitrary sizes to be arranged arbitrarily on a user’s screen. Managing multiple overlapping windows has been a defining feature of using a Mac since 1984. Stage Manager: Another crack at windowing Stage Manager lets you group windows together, while displaying groups as thumbnails on the edge of the screen. But it’s a long summer, and there’s a lot more to be done (and many more words to be written) before macOS Ventura arrives this fall. It’s not that the small stuff doesn’t matter-it can matter a lot. In this first look at Ventura on the occasion of its release in a Public Beta, I’m going to focus on the big stuff. And it’s thrown out the venerable System Preferences app, a part of Mac OS X since the early days, and replaced it with a new System Settings app that’s reminiscent of iOS. It’s recognized that families might want to share their iCloud Photo Libraries. It has enlisted the optics of the excellent cameras on the iPhone to act as a substitute for often-lackluster Apple webcams. In Ventura, Apple has added an entirely new way to manage the many windows can can litter our screens. There are dozens of small changes, and if one of them hits an app or feature you rely on, the change may make (or break) the entire upgrade for you. On the small side, it’s improved search in Spotlight and Mail, expanded Handoff support to include FaceTime calls, and provided some much-needed new features to Messages. If you're really hurting for space, I'd recommend turning on optimized photos with iCloud Photos for what you store on your internal SSD drive, and then keep a cheap large external HDD for the originals.Apple’s macOS Ventura, an update due to ship this fall that has arrived Monday as a public beta preview, is full of both little feature refinements and big swings at improving Mac productivity. The TL DR: here is that we get "taxed" 5-10% for much greater efficiency in speed in use and a lot of compelling features (non-destructive editing, Faces, Places, and other metadata based functionality). The remaining amount of data related to metadata and the database all is either needed for a feature (like Faces and Places) or general functionality. Technically, you could eliminate this if you really wanted, but the benefit to being able to go back and change edits is a pretty compelling reason to keep that data, combined with the degradation that would occur with repeated edits. The second largest amount of data is probably going to be related to non-destructive editing. Remove those and browsing your library becomes impractically slow as it ends up having to load in large image files and then render them at the size you're viewing at. I have a bit of insight into what this "redundant" data is, and what it would mean to remove it.įirst, a lot of it has to do with creating alternative views (thumbnails) of your images. or at least as similar as could be at the time on Windows. I worked with a startup many years ago that did something similar to iCloud Photos. My personal library is about 250GB and that has about 35GB of what you're calling redundant information. Your situation does sound very typical, if not absolutely average. The offending storage hogs are thumbnails caches and facial recognition stuff that Photos creates by itself! Trouble is, my Photos Library is beyond 46 GB! Photos clogged my SSD with 11 GB of redundant information, related to my own media! That, combined to Apple asking an arm and a leg for better storage options on its MacBooks, makes for a preposterous situation!īefore anyone says anything, I don’t have duplicated data, or edits. As of now, I have 35 GB of photos and home videos (as stated by iCloud and the size of the Masters folder), which I believe to be somewhat typical. Apple would do well to find a better solution to Photo Library. ![]() The main reason why the game is so much popular is because of all the great features it offers. Here we have listed down a few of the features which make the game a must-play for all. The game Call Of Duty 2 has a new set of enemies ready for the gamers to explore. The enemies in the game are highly trained and it takes a lot of skill to defeat them. Players will be playing through missions in the order they see fit. Players will decide between playing the game as a sniper or as a tank commander. 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Made by Infinity Ward, which was started by former developers on the Medal of Honor series, Call of Duty focused on straightforward, cinematic action, but did it extremely well, with wonderful set pieces and a sense of polish that's not always evident in games from first-time developers. This problem has become so substantial that Apple has released an extended service specifically for this problem, whereby they are replacing keyboards free of charge for anyone who's device falls within their approved list, which as of Jan 2020 includes all Mac products using the butterfly keyboard. ![]() turning off the period autocorrect option = System preferences -> Keyboard -> Text: Uncheck "Add period with double space".cleaning your keyboard, as per these instructions there's even an app to help you do this.It's also the least likely, from what I've gathered. This is one of the most common solutions as it is by far the simplest and quickest to try. System preferences -> keyboard = Slide the bar left to turn 'key repeat' to off.This is a summary of most of the answers that I have come across so far, hopefully one of them will work for anyone who is experiencing this problem. I'm sure other variations of this problem exist, these are the ones I've encountered most frequently in my search for a solution. instances of multiple repeated strings or sequences of keystrokes, at seemingly random intervals, for example whole words, or even multiple words appearing twice, and also modifier commands such as: ⌘+ w or ctrl+ tab.some people may also be irked by the default setting of a double space autocorrecting to a period.Space bar is also commonly reported to be double typing. single keys such as b or n being pressed and outputting doubles like bb or nn in their place.The most common reported issues I have seen are: There appear to be multiple similar problems, that may or may not have more than one possible solution. There have been many reports of this problem occurring on 2015, up to 2019 edition MacBook Pros, from the 13' to the 15' Touch Bar, and every thing in-between. So for a long time now, MacBook users have reported a 'double typing' issue, most especially with the most recent MacBook Pro's to hit the market. My attempt here is simply to aggregate as many of the key factors involved into one place. Note: If you've done your research, you'll note already an enormous amount of overlap with multiple pages linking back and forth to one another, in regards to this issue. So I'd like to try to post here a comprehensive answer that addresses the best possible solutions that have come up so far, starting with all the most common, simplest and least likely to work suggestions up to the ones that seem to address this problem specifically. ![]() However the problem addressed in this question is the one that I was experiencing. There appear to be many variations on this question, that I have found. ![]() This will apply to a single method running. Methods can also be invoked separately from running a scenario. This statement will stop the simulation at this point.An image is displayed, using the parameter value file name ‘Win.png’.The code in a nested if statement is now executed when ‘leavesEaten’ equals 10.This will have been defined in an earlier part of the code. ![]() A variable ‘leavesEaten’ is incremented by 1.Sound files can be imported into Greenfoot. Again this is a parameter value, here the name of a sound file. The aySound method then plays the sound file ‘eating.wav’.That leaf is then removed from the World. This code sends the value of ‘leaf’, as a parameter value, to the getWorld.removeObject method.If the value is null then the program will return to the act() method. If the value returned is not null then the next statements will execute.The parameter value is returned and is stored in the variable ‘Leaf’.‘Leaf.class’, in brackets, is a value, called a parameter value. getOneIntersectingObject is a method looking for an object from the Leaf class that the Wombat is intersecting with.A local variable ‘Leaf’ has been created for the Actor class in this method.It will have been called from the act() method. This is a method written by the programmer.There are several things happening in the code to initiate different actions, as follows: The Leaf will be removed and an ‘eating’ sound will be played.Īctor leaf = getOneIntersectingObject(Leaf.class) If they are, the Wombat needs to look as though it has eaten the Leaf. The code below will check to see if the Wombat and the Leaf are in the same position. Suppose the new method is called ‘ke圜ontrols()’.Ĭollisions are often used to initiate actions. The format of the heading of a new method is:Ī method is called from the act() method. These work like functions in other programming languages. Creating new methodsĪs well as using existing methods, programmers can create new methods. The method ‘isKeyDown’ can also be used with letters such as “a”, and the other arrow keys. This also uses methods from the Greenfoot class. The following code will allow an object to turn left or right when the left or right arrow keys are pressed. Moving an object using the keyboard controls ![]() ![]() Once it touches the edge of the World, it will turn away and continue its journey. This method will make the object move but turn randomly. If it touches the edge of the World it will turn 10 degrees. If that random number is less than 20, the code will generate another random number between -30 and 30 and turn that many degrees. The following code will move an object forward four spaces and then generate a random number between zero and 99 inclusive. Public static int getRandomNumber(int limit) The dot notation is necessary because getRandomNumber is a static method not associated with the class that it is defined in, so it can be accessed whenever necessary. This will access the getRandomNumber method of the Greenfoot class. To access these methods, use the dot notation, for example, Greenfoot.getRandomNumber(). The Greenfoot class provides methods to control the movement in a game. This method is created automatically, ready for code to be added to it. This is where any actions that the object will do happen, for example move(). Methods happen when a scenario is run.Įvery object that is an Actor class has a method called ‘act()’. For instance, the object could move forward, turn, make another object disappear, play a sound, etc. In Greenfoot, a method is the name given to an action that has been programmed into an object. In fact, compared to many other lateral recordings of the late acoustic era (towards 1925), most modern collectors prize Brunswick records as among the best acoustic records ever made, and are of the opinion they are particularly well-engineered and bright in the higher registers. Instead, the company used an expensive label with elaborate writing with a prominent “B” at the top. Brunswick could have used cheap materials to launch its new line of American records (much as the Cameo, Velvet-Tone, and Lincoln labels would all do later). ![]() Ensuring quality was very clearly how the organization prioritized its business, and how it intended to compete against its two largest rivals, Victor and Columbia Records (both of whom also manufactured phonograph cabinets as well).įurthermore, they had the financial capital to gradually prepare for such a move. 10īrunswick had manufactured pianos, billiard tables, then gramophone machines – all regarded as “furniture,” and of exceptionally fine quality. 9 Inside the machines, the internal springs for their machines were of exceptional quality and internal wooden horns made of holly or spruce wood. Brunswick continued to stockpile its new American recordings, and by 1920, had started to release them to the public. 8īrunswick’s connection to Pathé was no longer prominently marketed in 1918, and by September of the following year, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., started to announce its new U.S.-distributed records in The Talking Machine World. Although nothing was officially mentioned in the trade press, it would appear to us now, that by 1917, the expansion into the Canadian record market was quite probably part of a long-term strategy to establish an eventual foothold into the American record market. The agreement with Pathé resulted in Brunswick distributing its own line of recordings in Canada shortly thereafter. In line with their obvious focus on quality, Brunswick began with two styles of cabinets, later producing a range of console and upright models, but without external horns, which by 1916 had become unfashionable. The Brunswick gramophone machines would use a tonearm called the “Ultona” which was capable of playing both Victor-style lateral stylus discs as well as Edison-style “hill and dale” recordings. of New York wherein Brunswick would promote the use of Pathé records and not sell any of its own under the Brunswick label within the U.S. The corporation then went into alliance with the Pathé Frères Phonograph Co. As a result, the company started producing gramophones, and by August 1916 it had produced around 16,000 machines for delivery. Bessinger, recalled that by 1913 the company had been manufacturing pianos when it experienced a slump due to the recent uptick in world sales of phonographs. In 1925, the President of the company, B.E. Over the years, it expanded into many other products including bowling balls, pins, toilet seats, automobile tires, and finally phonographs. Collender Company which had patented billiard cushions. In 1879 it merged with a competing company, H. ![]() In 1874, it merged with Great Western Billiard Manufactory, owned by Julian Balke, hence the first two parts of the eventual name. Brunswick Manufacturing Company was originally created for the purposes of manufacturing carriages, its owner soon realized that billiards tables were largely manufactured in the United Kingdom and exported to the U.S. was both a Midwestern company (it was founded in 1845 in Cincinnati, Ohio by John Moses Brunswick, who was born in Switzerland) 4 and that its business practices were governed by pragmatism, both before and after the inception of its gramophone business.Īlthough J. 2 3 That being said, this author nonetheless maintains that, based on the evidence, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. It has been scientifically determined that even so-called “positive” stereotypes are harmful. It is important for the listener of the music and the reader of this effort not just to sense the exceptionality of the musical expression, but also know the reasons. However, beyond any subtlety, there lies a world of musical sound that was completely disparate from what had immediately preceded the years 1920 to 1925 and would prove equally different from that which appeared after those years. 1 The bands herein examined all bear certain musical similarities. While any article about music should have the music as its primary focus, the attempt herein is, in addition, to provide a background and cultural context to a group of exceptional dance bands from the early 1920s. If you’re looking for a similar lightweight, minimal, and cheap antivirus as Cylance, I recommend Malwarebytes. If you’re using Cylance now, then you need to switch to a new antivirus because hackers are constantly creating new malware variants and an antivirus that isn’t receiving regular updates is a serious security risk. The second version of the suite, which will be released early next year, will still have that kind of product, along with Cylance's.īut Hansen said he expects over time that as customers see how Protect works, they'll be "more than happy" to drop signature-based malware detection.Cylance Smart Antivirus has been discontinued. SecureWorks put about 200 samples of the most effective malware and exploits together on a USB stick and was impressed with how Protect handled it, Hansen said.ĭell used a signature-based antivirus product in the first version of Data Protection Endpoint Security Suite, which Hansen declined to name. One of the common complaints from Dell customers is that they spend an inordinate amount of time answering helpdesk calls about infected computers.Ĭylance's Protect was tested by Dell's SecureWorks, the company's crack security division. That wasn't good enough, and Dell was looking for something that would prevent machines from getting infected in the first place. They couldn't guarantee that a computer wouldn't get infected, but did say they could detect and remediate it, Hansen said. Most were the same, using a combination of cloud computing, heuristics and behavioral analysis. There are a lot of new companies that are trying different approaches to stopping malware and advanced attacks, and Dell looked at products from more than 60, Hansen said. That also means Protect doesn't need a consistent network connection to work, which is also appealing to those frustrated by daily or even hourly downloads of new signatures.įinding a satisfactory product took Dell security experts more than a year. Two or three times a year, Cylance send out an update to fine tune the algorithm. It's a lightweight agent that runs on a computer, and it only occasionally needs updating. Instead, it uses an algorithm that analyzes seven million characteristics of files and programs and scores those elements on the likelihood of them being malicious, and can block them. "Our customers have been telling us the same thing: it is just not working," Hansen said.Ĭylance doesn't use signatures. Other technologies in antivirus suites can detect strange behavior and block malware, but often only after it has already infected a machine and done something bad. Many antivirus programs still rely in part on systems that require identification of a piece of malware, which is then further identified by security products once a "signature" is pushed to a PC's security application.īut most security experts have agreed that signature-based detection is fairly ineffective these days since what is essentially the same malware can be changed to avoid detection. ![]() Įarly next year, Dell will wrap Cylance's Protect product in its Data Protection Endpoint Security Suite, said Brett Hansen, Dell's executive director of data security solutions. The suite is an integrated package with encryption capabilities, authentication features and malware detection. The PC giant has partnered with Cylance, an Irvine, Calif.-based company that specializes in detecting and blocking attacks on endpoint computers. A partnership announced by Dell on Tuesday shows how cyber security defenses are evolving, which could have wide-ranging effects on vendors like Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro. |
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