![]() ![]() It was originally expected to ship in October 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP and "Blackcomb", which was planned to be the company's next major operating system release. Microsoft began work on Windows Vista, known at the time by its codename "Longhorn", in May 2001, five months before the release of Windows XP. Main article: Development of Windows Vista As of February 2022, 0.18% of PCs run Windows Vista. Windows Vista was succeeded by Windows 7. Mainstream support for Windows Vista ended on April 10, 2012, and extended support ended on April 11, 2017. The market share of Windows Vista fell below 1% by the end of 2021, coinciding with the release of Windows 11. On October 22, 2010, Microsoft ceased sales of retail copies of Windows Vista, and the original equipment manufacturer's sales for Windows Vista ceased the following year. However, Windows Vista usage did exceed Microsoft's pre-launch two-year-out expectations of achieving 200 million users, with an estimated 330 million Internet users in January 2009. ![]() Due to these and other issues, Windows Vista saw lower initial adoption and satisfaction rates than Windows XP. While these new features and security improvements garnered praise, Windows Vista was also the target of significant criticism, such as of its high system requirements, more restrictive licensing terms, lack of compatibility, longer boot time, and excessive authorization prompts from User Account Control. Windows Vista removed support for Itanium and devices without ACPI. NET Framework, allowing software developers to write applications without traditional Windows APIs. Windows Vista included version 3.0 of the. Windows Vista aimed to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and media between computers and devices. Windows Vista introduced an updated graphical user interface and visual style dubbed " Aero," a new search component called " Windows Search," redesigned networking, audio, print, and display sub-systems, and new multimedia tools such as Windows DVD Maker among other changes. On January 30, 2007, it was released globally and made available for purchase and download from the Windows Marketplace, the first release of Windows to be made available through a digital distribution platform. Development was finished on November 8, 2006, and over the following three months, it was released in stages to computer hardware and software manufacturers, business customers, and retail channels. At the time, this 5-year gap was the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft's Windows desktop operating systems. Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft as the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released in 2001. Service Pack 2 is required to be installed for receiving updates and support after July 12, 2011. Installing Service Pack 1 is required for users to receive updates and support after April 13, 2010. Mainstream support ended on April 10, 2012.Įxtended support ended on April 11, 2017. Windows Vista (archived at Wayback Machine) System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). ![]()
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It’s remarkable just how well this has held up 25 years later, it’s still as colorful and fresh as ever.Ī song that sounds like a brick being thrown through your window. ![]() It’s still remarkable to think this was such a massive hit - it’s as dark and somber a lyric as you’re ever gonna hear in the charts, discussing the persistence of poverty and the difficulty of social mobility in a society that just keeps pushing you back down.Ĭherry had done a couple of guest appearances with The Wild Bunch and The The before this song was released, but this was her solo debut, and it remains one of the most exuberant and idiosyncratic moments of the late ’80s. Also memorable: that video, with Bush’s iconic red dress and her equally iconic interpretive dance moves. One of the most idiosyncratic debut singles the world has ever heard, and one of the most memorable - there just aren’t that many Brontë-inspired oddball singer/songwriters around, sadly. It’s since become something of an Australian classic, despite the fact that Howard himself had long since grown tired of it. The first the world heard from Nick Cave and the band who would become The Birthday Party, although this song was written by guitarist Rowland S. If you weren’t listening to this on Halloween, you were doing it all wrong. Also, as a measure of its ubiquity, I heard it being played last year on a flight between Kuala Lumpur and Bahrain - they censored all the “fucks,” but clearly didn’t realize “cunt” was also a curse word. Sure, her career since has been an ongoing exercise in being let down, but this is still a killer single. The experience of listening is not unlike having your head put into a blender. ![]() ![]() Into the course of precisely 86 seconds, Bad Brains managed to cram two verses that delivered a strongly worded critique of consumer society, a brief instrumental break, and coda that manages to strike some note of hope (“A peace together/ A piece apart/ A piece of wisdom from our hearts”). (One caveat: we’ve generally avoided one-hit wonders, who are a category of their own, although a couple did sneak in.) Of course, this discussion inevitably led to list-making, and here’s the result: our picks for the 50 best debut singles the world of music has to offer. The list is nearly endless, but once you start to think about it, picking out the best isn’t quite as easy as you might think - “Alison” wasn’t Elvis Costello’s first single, for instance, nor was “Take Me Out” Franz Ferdinand’s debut or “Unfinished Sympathy” Massive Attack’s. Apropos of not a great deal, the music nerd contingent at Flavorwire central recently got a-talking about our favorite debut single. ![]() ![]() ![]() If we did not have a map handy, we would deduce that the coordinates 171 E longitude, 12 S latitude are likely:Ī. just east of the international dateline and just south of the equator. Just south of the international dateline and just east of the equator. Just east of the prime meridian and just south of the equator.Į. Just east of the international dateline and just south of the equator.ĭ. Just south of the equator and just east of the prime meridian.Ĭ. Just west of the international dateline and just north of the equator.ī. Without looking at a map, we might deduce that the coordinates 170 W longitude, 11 S latitude are likely:Ī. near both the international dateline and the North Pole. Near both the Tropic of Cancer and the international dateline. Near the north pole and the prime meridian.Į. Near the international dateline and the equator.ĭ. Near the equator but quite far from the prime meridian.Ĭ. ![]() Near both the international dateline and the North Pole.ī. The coordinates 150 E longitude, 89 N latitude are:Ī. near both the equator and the prime meridian. near both the equator and the international dateline. near the international dateline and the prime meridian.Į. near the international dateline as well as the North Pole.ĭ. near the equator but quite far from the prime meridian.Ĭ. ![]() You do not need to look at a map in order to deduce that this location is:Ī. small-scale maps You see the coordinates 5 E longitude, 10 N latitude. ![]() city Distortion is especially severe and apparent on:Į. 100,000 kilometers Which of the following types of maps would have the largest scale?Į. If the scale of a map is 1:100,000, then 1 cm on the map represents _ on earth surface.Į. Depict accurately the physical area of a country or continent. Depict accurately the shape of that same continent. Depict accurately the physical area of a country or continent.Į. Depict a map that accurately represents a globe in every detail.ĭ. Distort the distances and relative sizes of countries and continents.Ĭ. Distort the shapes of other continents.ī. A map projection may distort a continent, making it appear stretched in some areas and smashed in others in order to:Ī. Maps have appeared in many forms in different societies and times including modern paper maps, GPS in cars, the "stick charts" of Polynesia, and the card carved maps of ancient Turkey. Maps that distort the sizes of Greenland and Antarctica are generally the best, although they make Africa and South America appear too small while simultaneously expanding the size of Europe. Maps have appeared in many forms in different societies and times including modern paper maps, GPS in cars, the "stick charts" of Polynesia, and the card carved maps of ancient Turkey.Į. Sailors during the European Renaissance had paper maps that were far more useful to them then were the "stick charts" possessed by the Polynesian sailors and fishers.ĭ. The first "true" maps appeared because of modern printing presses in the 20th century.Ĭ. Fairly accurate navigational maps could only be produced after the start of the Industrial Revolution.ī. 180° longitude We can judge from the various kinds of maps shown in this chapter that:Ī. The international dateline is measured approximately from:Į. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can try the PopClip app for free by installing a trial version on the developer’s website (links below). Thus, you can, for example, quickly speak the selected text, mark it, change the format, convert it to HTML, translate it into any language, search Google, Google Maps, Yandex, YouTube, Apple Music, Wikipedia, share, etc. There are more than 170 of them in total! ![]() In addition to the features above, you can also add various PopClip extensions ( link). If PopClip interferes with its functionality when using some programs, then just add them to the list of exceptions. The design of the cloud with the proposed actions almost completely repeats that in iOS. There are “Show in Finder”, “Open Link” and “Use Address” functions, and the dictionary immediately offers options for replacing a misspelled word. The functionality of PopClip is not limited to this. When using this application, it is no longer necessary to press the right mouse button or use keyboard shortcuts (sometimes there is no desire or ability to use them) to access search functions (performed through the Google search engine), copy, paste or cut text. The main purpose of PopClip is to increase comfort when working with text materials.Īfter installing PopClip, when you select text, a panel will automatically appear, just like in iOS. □ BY TOPIC: Hidden Bar is a handy utility for organizing items in the macOS menu bar. 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Again, as all edits are non-destructive, you can revert back to the original photo in your Camera Roll at any time. This new non-destructive editing feature allows you to make all manner of edits to your photos including cropping, adjusting brightness and contrast, white balance, and more.Ī new selection of subtle filters offers you even more ways to express yourself through your images. You can also now edit your photos in the Flickr app without affecting the original files in your Camera Roll. Edit Photos Directly From The Flickr Camera Roll This is a great way to have easy, browsable access to your entire Flickr catalog.įrom the Camera Roll, you can select one or more images to move into albums, add to a group, adjust the privacy level, and more. If not, then the Flickr Camera Roll will only be a subset of your iPhone’s photos.Įither way, the new Camera Roll is where all of your uploaded images are stored whether you share them publicly or not. ![]() View All Of Your Uploaded Photos In The “Camera Roll”Īnother great new feature of the Flickr app is the aptly-named “Camera Roll.” It’s so named because it has the potential to mirror your iPhone’s Camera Roll if you utilize the auto-upload feature. If you only want to use Flickr as a backup solution, you could choose to keep your entire photo collection private. You can choose which photos are shared publicly and which remain private. You don’t have to expose your entire Camera Roll to the Flickr community. You can then download copies of any of your stored files at any time and in full resolution. Therefore, it truly does work as a good backup solution. It should be noted that unlike other photo sharing apps such as Instagram, Flickr allows for the uploading of full-resolution files and doesn’t scale them down in size. This is a serious amount of storage! Many users take advantage of this free cloud storage and use Flickr as an option for backing up photos remotely. ![]() The app will also avoid uploading any duplicate photos that you may have uploaded already in the past.įlickr users receive access to an incredible 1,000 GB (1 Terabyte) of free online photo storage. However, with this new update, the Flickr app will also automatically back up all of your other existing photos and videos in your Camera Roll. Auto-Upload All Of Your Photosįlickr has long offered the ability to auto-upload your photos, as you take them, to your Flickr account. So let’s take a look at what the recently updated app has to offer. The Flickr app is free to download from the App Store and works with both iPhone and iPad. However, that app was rather limited in its first few iterations. With this new update though, the mobile app is very close in functionality to the web version. Like most other photo sharing services, Flickr offers a mobile app for engaging with their community directly from your iPhone. The website is still the most full-featured way to interact with the community through uploading and sharing photos, commenting on other people’s photos, following other users, etc. ![]() If you’re unfamiliar with Flickr, it’s an online photo-sharing service ( unlike Instagram or EyeEm, but with its own unique approach. In this article we’ll take a look at what the new Flickr app has to offer, and how it can help you share and store your iPhone photos online. Coupled with the auto-upload feature, this makes Flickr an excellent tool for backing up your entire Camera Roll. As well as being able to edit your iPhone photos and share them with the online Flickr community, it offers a staggering 1,000 GB of free cloud storage. The popular Flickr photo-sharing app has recently been updated with a new interface and some great additional features which create a cleaner, easier and more in-depth user experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Considering the bones wanted by the Ragdoll Wizard (under GameObject -> Create Other -> Ragdoll.), the guidelines in the documentation under Preparing your own character, and the names in the avatar configuration palette, this looks like a good hierarchy for reasonably simple characters: I couldn't find any definitive guide on what to name the bones, though it does seem to matter to some extent. In Unity, set the avatar type to "Unity" and configure the avatar.Save this file into the Assets folder of your Unity project.Add joints (bones), in an appropriate structure and with standard names.Cheetah3D makes it really easy to define the rig, and if you follow some simple guidelines, then Unity understands what the various bones mean, and can match them up to animations that may have been defined for completely different (but still humanoid) models. Each vertex of the mesh is controlled by some combination of nearby bones. Since I couldn't find this laid out anywhere, but had to piece it together from several sources, I thought I'd share here so the maybe the next person in the same boat can have a leg up.Ī "rig" is just a collection of joints, also known as bones, which form a little tree structure under the visible mesh of the model. move the film out of the focal plane of the lens, or through it, to get enhanced depth of field (for example) at the cost of distortion.I've just worked out the process for rigging a humanoid model for use with Mecanim in the Cheetah3D modeling package. But I'm sure you can do that in C3D if you really want to -) But yes, you can definitely do stuff with a 4x5 or bellows that you cannot do in C3D - i.e. Oh, unless you're TRYING to distort the image by deliberately putting the focal plane out of whack with the subject. And you can do exactly the same thing in C3D, at the cost of increased rendering time. In essence, a PC lens is a wider angle lens than quoted, that could be used with a bigger piece of film, which is instead cropped to a smaller size. In their diagram you'll see that the PC lens moves the film around inside the focal plane of the lens. ![]() Another option is to go to C and crop the picture (again, in the real world you would lose resolution, but in 3D you just take longer to render, or only render a portion of the image - either by allowing selective rendering or implementing a software "shift camera" - both of which would be nice features for C3D to add).Ĭlick to expand.It's exactly the same as using a wider angle lens and cropping except that (in a 3d program) you don't lose sharpness and get lens distortion and light falloff effects, but it will take longer to render (in C3D, at least). To fix the perspective you really want to stand at B which, in the real world is impossible, but in 3D programs is usually easy. If you tilt up to get the composition you want, your perspective goes awry. ![]() in the boardroom shot, you point the camera horizontal, increase field of view, render bigger, and then crop.įinally, with all that said, it shouldn't be huge deal to implement the necessary feature via modifying the perspective transform by adding an offset (or "shift" -) )Ī is where you're standing. In fact you'll get better results by positioning the camera than you would by having a "shift camera".īTW the exact analog of a shift camera in 3D is to render the image way bigger and crop.Į.g. Shift cameras are designed to compensate for not being able to photograph a building from 200' in the air (or whatever) - which is not a problem in C3D. ROI's point is, I think, that you can achieve the perspective you want in C3D by moving the camera. ![]() ![]() Smith-Schuster should help, after catching 78 passes for 933 yards with three touchdowns in 16 games for Kansas City in 2022. 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![]() ![]() Not surprisingly, these plots have very similar shapes to the quantile difference plots we considered earlier. Related to quantile plots and Vincentile plots, delta plots show the difference between conditions, bin by bin (for each Vincentile) along the y-axis, as a function of the mean across conditions for each bin along the x-axis (De Jong et al., 1994). Group quantile and Vincentile plots can be created by averaging quantiles and Vincentiles across participants (Balota & Yap, 2011 Ratcliff, 1979). As expected from the way they are computed, quantile plots and Vincentile plots look very similar for our large samples from continuous variables. Below means were computed for 9 equi-populated bins. Then the mean is computed for each bin (Balota et al. To help with the group comparisons, I’ve also added plots of the quantile differences, which emphasise the different patterns of group differences.Īn alternative to quantiles are Vincentiles, which are computed by sorting the data and splitting them in equi-populated bins (there is the same number of observations in each bin). Because the quantiles are superimposed, they are easier to compare than in the previous scatterplots. If we remove the scatterplots and only show the quantiles, we obtain quantile plots, which provide a compact description of how distributions differ (please post a comment if you know of older references using quantile plots). This information would be lost if we only compared the medians. Comparing quantiles between groups give us a sense of the amount of relative compression/expansion on each side of the distributions. Medians are informative about the location of the bulk of the observations and comparing the lower to upper quantiles let us appreciate the amount of asymmetry within distributions. The deciles are represented by vertical black lines, with medians shown with thicker lines. To make the plots even more informative, I’ve superimposed quantiles – here deciles computed using the Harrell-Davis quantile estimator. Essentially, the function creates violin plots in which the constituent points are visible. Here we create scatterplots shaped by local density using the geom_quasirandom() function from the ggbeeswarm package. Scatterplots and kernel density plots can be combined by using beeswarm plots. Relative to scatterplots, I find that kernel density plots make the comparisons between groups much easier. With smaller sample sizes the evaluation of these graphs could be much more challenging. The main reason is probably that we need to estimate local densities of points in different regions and compare them between groups.įor the purpose of this exercise, each group (g1 and g2) is composed of 1,000 observations, so the differences in shapes are quite striking. The 1D scatterplots give us a good idea of how the groups differ but they’re not the easiest to read. Other approaches not covered here include explicit mathematical models of decision making and fitting functions to model the shape of the distributions (Balota & Yap, 2011).įor our current example, I made up data for 2 independent groups with four patterns of differences:įor our first visualisation, we use geom_jitter() from ggplot2. So unless the distributions are at least illustrated, this information is lost (which is typically the case when distributions are summarised using a single value like the mean). Reaction time distributions are also a rich source of information to constrain cognitive theories and models. As an example, we consider reaction time data, which are typically positively skewed and can differ in different ways. In this post I’m going to show you a few simple steps to illustrate continuous distributions. ![]() |
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