![]() But it's a pretty real-world guage.Īnother tool to consider (if it's speed you're after) is namebench, the DNS you use makes a difference in speeds (and security) as well. Not accurate or "scientific" like you're asking. I find it more telling to observe what a connection's capability is to see what the speeds of a massive sized popular bit torrent will download at. There's more to it than that, the tests themselves seem to be overly flattering of the ISPs supposed speeds. Both of these are html5, so you can do the test on a mobile browser too instead of installing an app.īut yeah, speeds do vary at different times of the day, the week, peak times around holidays etc.Īnother thing that adds to the complication and skews speed tests are the so called "bursts" that some ISPs give downloads for the first 20 MB (or other variable amount), hence the need to test under stress or longer duration. I find that java based speed tests like Ookla's slows down the system, and when working on other people's computers they might have outdated or non functioning java etc. Here is sample output from a test I ran showing the maximum speed achieved for the test was about 8 Mbs from the particular system I used for testing: $ iperf -c Ĭlient connecting to, TCP port 5001 E.g., you could install the Iperf software on one of your systems and run the command iperf -c - the -c means your system would be acting as the client in a client-server relationship. ![]() ![]() There are also public Iperf servers you can use to test your bandwidth to various locations throughout the world - see the list at Public iPerf3 servers. You can find online tutorials on its use. When using Iperf, one system is run in "server" mode and the other in "client" mode. You would need to configure your home router/firewall to allow the incoming connections and also might need to configure firewall software on the host system at home, if you are using host-based firewall software, such as Microsoft Windows firewall software. To use the program to test the available bandwidth between two locations, you will need to install it on two systems at those locations - perhaps you could install it on a system at a friend's or relative's house if you don't have two systems of your own at separate locations or you could test from a phone or laptop to another system at your home location while outside of your home, if that is the location whose bandwidth you wish to test. It is command line program available for Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, Linux systems, as well as iPhones and Android phones - see the download links at If there is more congestion on the path, your speed test results may be lower than when you previously ran a test.Īs far as running a program on your computer to judge the available speed to a system outside of your local area network (LAN), Iperf is frequently used to test the available bandwidth between two systems. You are unlikely to get exactly the same results even if you run several tests using the same Internet speed test provider, since there will be other traffic between you and the provider's test server and that traffic will vary from moment to moment. You can see the number of intervening routers, i.e., "network hops", between two systems by using the traceroute command on Microsoft Windows systems it is tracert, e.g., tracert You may notice that the number of network hops varies even when running a test with the same provider from one day to the next, since the way networking works is that if one network path becomes unavailable or congested, another, if available, may be taken, just as you might choose a different route to drive from point A to point B if you know there is a congestion on a particular road between the two points. ![]() E.g., as an example of different results, you can see the bandwidth test results I found several years ago when testing a Verizon network service using the above test services, including tests run using the same test provider, but at different times or with servers in different cities for a bandwidth test provider. ![]() You shouldn't expect to get exactly the same results between speed test providers, since the number of network hops between your systems and their servers will vary, i.e., there will be a varying number of routers between your systems and their systems depending on the network path between your systems and their systems. Sites that I've used for such testing in the past include the following: ![]()
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![]() ![]() This procedure will convert them to font icons that will be ready to use in Unite UX.īy default, the Unite UX plugin automatically selects the type of frame that you export. Once you create your new icons and add them to the desired frames in the UI kit, proceed by exporting the icons to Unite UX. Right-click the newly created union shape and select Create component from the context menu. To match the color of the existing icons, select the $button-text style. To achieve this, always use the Flatten selection option.
![]() ![]() We just need to change or add one line in the definition of our pipeline state object. The first thing we actually need to do before tessellating is to render our terrain in wire frame so that we can actually see the new triangles. We’ll look at those steps briefly here, but I think you can get a better explanation of tessellation from those links above. Things like preparing the pipeline and compiling the shaders. Everything in HLSL is identical, and the differences on the Direct3D side are the same sorts of differences we’ve had to go through already to get to this point. ![]() There really isn’t much difference between DirectX 11 and 12, as far as tessellation is concerned. I haven’t read the book cover to cover, so don’t take this as an educated recommendation, but based on this particular chapter, it seems like a good book to start learning with. I found Frank Luna’s description of tessellation in the DirectX 11 version of his book quite easy to follow. There is the book ‘ Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 12,’ by Frank Luna, but I have the DirectX 11 version of the book and reviews indicate there’s no real reason to buy the one if you have the other. All of the available tutorials and even Microsoft’s own information on MSDN is all for DirectX 11. When looking for references for tessellation, I couldn’t find anything at all specifically in DirectX 12. We’ll worry about using the tessellation to add detail and to create a Level of Detail system later. We’re just going to tessellate the whole damn thing with no extra detail. Today, we finally begin looking at tessellation of our terrain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ulrich Wilker: "Ein fernes Murmeln aus einer fernen Welt".Tomi Mäkelä: Jean Sibelius und seine Zeit (German), Laaber-Verlag, Regensburg 2013.Jahrhunderts (German), Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2004 Beat Föllmi (ed.): Das Streichquartett in der ersten Hälfte des 20.The Finnish violinist and composer Pekka Kuusisto has arranged the work for chamber orchestra, which was included in Kuusisto's 2009 Australian tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The finale, "with more than a hint of folk fiddling", grows in intensity by markings from Allegro to "sempre più energico" (always more energetic), described as "fiercely accented music of forceful contrasts but irresistible momentum". A second scherzo is also connected by motivic similarity to the first movement. It contains "three detached, soft chords in E minor, remote from any of the previous harmonic implications", to which Sibelius added the " voces intimae" in a friend's score. The central slow movement has been described as a "soulful quest for serenity in F major". The second movement is a scherzo in A major, connected to the first by musical motifs. The first movement contrasts "murmurous figuration with firm chords". The work opens with a dialogue of violin and cello. Sibelius structured the quartet in five movements: It is not a composition for the public at large, it is so eccentric and out of the ordinary." Sibelius later wrote about the composition: "The melodic material is good but the harmonic material could be 'lighter', and even 'more like a quartet.'" Structure and music A review in the Helsingin Sanomat noted: "The composition attracted a great deal of attention, and it is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant products in its field. The first performance was on 25 April 1910 at the Helsinki Music Institute. I will say no more." Sibelius showed it to his publisher Robert Lienau on 15 April 1909. The kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death. The composer wrote about his work in a letter to his wife: "It turned out as something wonderful. The Latin title, translating to "Intimate Voices" or "Inner voices", marks a "conversational quality" and "inwardness" of the music. Sibelius composed the quartet from December 1908, working on it in London in early 1909. Composed between his Third and Fourth Symphony, it remained "the only major work for string quartet of Sibelius's mature period". Afterwards he wrote no string quartets until Voces intimae in 1909. The first string quartet to receive an opus number was in 1890: the String Quartet in B-flat major (Op. In 1885 he finished the String Quartet in E-flat major, followed in 1889, after quite a few individual movements for this combination, by the String Quartet in A minor. History Īs a student, Sibelius composed several works for string quartet. It is the only major work for string quartet of his mature period. The String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae (literal English translation: "Intimate voices" or "Inner voices"), Op. 56, is a five- movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello written in 1909 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some large or heavy items require additional shipping and handling charges due to the bulky nature of these products. Some special orders may require 2 to 6 weeks depending on the item. ![]() Items shipping via Truck Freight are clearly marked on our website and catalog. Larger items may be delivered via FedEx Ground, FedEx Home Delivery, UPS Ground, or Truck Freight. 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Photos show how Seattle’s favorite businesses vanished after Amazon showed up - and it could be an omen for the HQ2 cityĬonstruction in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, the home of Amazon's headquarters. Actually let's be more severe than that to keep the transit advocates happy - let's discount car advertised mpg by 50% and assume that the train mpg is gospel (for once, what they say is the reality). So let's discount the average car's advertised mpg by 20%. ![]() Ii) Advertised mpg for cars can be optimistic the reality as we've all discovered comes in around 20% under (give or take) But the 2031 locomotive lifespan midpoint is 6 years beyond the Whitehouse mandate I) It will take time for the existing vehicle fleet to be replaced. Of course we need to adjust this downwards as: Whitehouse legislation mandates that the average fuel economy of new cars in 2025, that's 6 years earlier, will be 54.5mpg (Source: the Whitehouse). The locomotives are meant to have a lifespan of 30 years so this puts the midpoint of operational life at 2031. SMART is supposed to commence operations in late 2016. These are ultimately calculated based on "passenger mpg" and as with mpg the higher the number the better. If you dig deep enough, and it's nicely buried, you can work out the SMART trains' emissions. Questioning the Unquestionable - is it Really Green?īut this is where the cheap sales-trick falls apart. Also being Marinites we liked the sound of anything that sounded sustainable and green, and what could possibly be greener than a train? Surely that's common sense. It was worked out that we the taxpaying voters of Marin and Sonoma cared deeply about reducing 101 congestion. ![]() Then they work out which of the four elements you care about the most and before you know it the elements you fixated on are great and you're in the finance managers office signing away hundreds more than you needed to as the other elements have been twisted in the dealership's favor. You know the one - it's called the four square system. However SMART and its many advocates seem to be adopting the tactics akin to cheap car salesmen. My respect for car salesman right now is at an all time high having dealt with the highly professional Jim Leavitt of San Rafael and the truly amazing Steve Dolowitz of Petaluma Honda, who sadly passed away at the age of 56 in 2006. ![]() ![]() “He slipped under the radar of the #MeToo movement, because he has been irrelevant for quite some time,” said Blackford Newman. (Those charges, for which he was found guilty in 2013, stem from a 2011 incident in which he met three recent college graduates at a bar, took them to his Bel-Air home, prevented them from leaving his vehicle, grabbed one girl’s hair and throat and slammed her head on the floor.) For years, Francis dodged or settled numerous lawsuits and skipped out of jail time for a misdemeanor assault and false imprisonment conviction in Los Angeles by fleeing to his resort home in Mexico. Lack of accountability appears to be a running theme for Francis. (The alleged assault was first reported in a 2006 Los Angeles Times profile in which he also physically assaults the 29-year-old female journalist.) Though she went to police, “nothing to this day has ever been done about it,” Jannel says in the film. (Despite years of legal battles, DVDs featuring her are still being sold.)Ī woman in her mid-30s named Jannel alleges that Francis, whom she trusted because he was a celebrity associated with such figures as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton, fed her shots, manipulated her into masturbating on camera, and raped her in the back of the Girls Gone Wild tour bus. Another participant, Tabitha, says she was 17 and drunk when she was talked into a wet T-shirt contest five years later, she found herself an unwitting poster girl of Girls Gone Wild. Some, such as Nichole, who appears in the documentary, did not even know she was being taped. They featured girls, sometimes underage and manipulated into commercial releases while drunk, performing sexual acts on themselves or each other under blatant pressure from Francis. “And there are people whose lives are still being impacted.”Īs the film recounts through in-person interviews with former Girls Gone Wild producers and staff and copious footage, the tapes themselves were dubiously sourced and financed. “Behind the fun and the wet T-shirt competitions and this sort of faux feminist liberation – flashing your breasts for the camera – lives were being ruined,” the film’s director, Katinka Blackford Newman, told the Guardian. The 84-minute film, part of TNT’s Rich and Shameless anthology, digs into the queasy popularity of Girls Gone Wild and assembles a deluge of evidence suggesting that Francis, a fixture of mid-aughts gossip blogs, was a serial physical and emotional abuser. The anything-goes raunch and eye-popping infomercials also (barely) masked something much more sinister and damaging, according to a new documentary, Girls Gone Wild Exposed. ![]() (Nor was it without controversy at the time.) ![]() ![]() ![]() Francis dominated the soft-core porn market in the early internet days millions of people purchased footage of the girls – often barely over 18 and sometimes younger, predominantly white, thin and blonde – getting badgered by cameramen to take more shots, take their tops off, make out with their friends, use sex toys on themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() These help to reduce the inflammation and redness associated with both razor bumps and razor burn.Įxamples of popular natural astringents include: One of the most popular home remedies for razor burn is the application of a natural astringent liquid. Wring off the excess and apply to the skin for up to 20 minutes. To make a cold compress, simply place a clean washcloth under a stream of cold water. 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The stop pattern permits bidirectional scanning. ![]() The stop pattern is composed of two overlapped symbols and has four bars. ![]() Each bar and space is 1 to 4 modules wide, and the symbols are fixed width: the sum of the widths of the three black bars and three white bars is 11 modules. All widths are multiples of a basic "module". Each symbol consists of three black bars and three white spaces of varying widths. The check symbol is calculated from a weighted sum ( modulo 103) of all the symbols.Ĭode 128 includes 108 symbols: 103 data symbols, 3 start symbols, and 2 stop symbols. Final bar (often considered part of the stop symbol).Specification Schematic of a barcode (Code 128B).ġ:quiet zone, 2:Start Code B, 3:data, 4:checksum, 5:stop GS1-128 (formerly known as UCC/EAN-128) is a subset of Code 128 and is used extensively worldwide in shipping and packaging industries as a product identification code for the container and pallet levels in the supply chain. A GS1-128 barcode encoding GTIN, best before date and batch number Code 128 was developed by the Computer Identics Corporation in 1981. It generally results in more compact barcodes compared to other methods like Code 39, especially when the texts contain mostly digits. It can encode all 128 characters of ASCII and, by use of an extension symbol (FNC4), the Latin-1 characters defined in ISO/IEC 8859-1. It is used for alphanumeric or numeric-only barcodes. JSTOR ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī Swiss postal barcode encoding "RI 476 394 652 CH" in Code 128 (B & C)Ĭode 128 is a high-density linear barcode symbology defined in ISO/IEC 15417:2007.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Protection from poverty: The one who recites this Surah every night once, he/she will never face poverty.There are many benefits of reciting Surah Al-Waqiah and they are as follows: ![]() ” And if the deceased was of those brought near to Allah, Then rest and bounty and a garden of pleasure. And if he was of the companions of the right, Then, “Peace for you from the companions of the right.” But if he was of the deniers astray, Then accommodation of scalding water. And burning in Hellfire.” (56:88-94). In the Gardens of Pleasure, A company of the former peoples. And a few of the later peoples,” (56:7-14). “And you become three kinds: Then the companions of the right – what are the companions of the right? And the companions of the left – what are the companions of the left? And the forerunners, the forerunners – Those are the ones brought near. There are two Quranic verses of this Surah that describe the three types of people mentioned. Quranic Verses That Describe the Three Types of People: Those who never believed in Allah shall never be forgiven and will be directly sent to the Hell. Then theĭead will be resurrected and their decision will be made about whether they The non believers live to face the hardship and pain in this life.
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