![]() (The inventors of the other razors-the OneBlade and the Leaf-said similar things. “The goal is to evangelize the Gillette users of the world and bring them over to the light,” says Patrick Coddou, whose Supply razor is one of three I tested for this story. ![]() Entrepreneurs and inventors have been trying to address some of the ritual’s downsides, coming up with razors that are more convenient, with easy-to-load blades, and whose features allow for faster shave sessions while still requiring skill (and yielding the sense of accomplishment that goes with it). (This is fun, and possibly the best thing about old-school shaving.)īut there’s also a new variant on the old-school process. If you-or perhaps the dad in your life, with Father’s Day coming up-fall, or aspire to fall, into the ritual-shaving category, it’s worth investing in a great razor like the Merkur Model 37C or the Edwin Jagger Double Edge, both former Wirecutter picks, paired with a sampler that lets you try blades from a dozen or more manufacturers to find your favorite. Then there are those who see shaving as a ritual: a warm brush, a carefully built lather, and precise bladework with an old-fashioned safety razor (the kind that uses flat, rectangular blades with two edges) or, if they’re really committed, an ultra-sharp single-edge (aka cutthroat) razor. ![]() There are folks who just want a close shave with a minimum of fuss, and for them, a quality drugstore razor works just fine. When it comes to shaving, people tend to fall into two camps. ![]()
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![]() IJCSIS is indexed in major academic/scientific databases and important repositories, such as: Google Scholar, Thomson Reuters, ArXiv, CiteSeerX, Cornell’s University Library, Ei Compendex, ISI Scopus, DBLP, DOAJ, ProQuest, ResearchGate, and EBSCO among others. There have been many improvements to the processing of papers we have also witnessed a significant growth in interest through a higher number of submissions as well as through the breadth and quality of those submissions. This statistics shows that IJCSIS has established the first step to be an international and prestigious journal in the field of Computer Science and Information Security. According to Google Scholar, up to now papers published in IJCSIS have been cited over 6389 times and the number is quickly increasing. It especially provides a platform for high-caliber academics, practitioners and PhD/Doctoral graduates to publish completed work and latest research outcomes. High quality research, survey & review articles are proposed from experts in the field, promoting insight and understanding of the state of the art, and trends in computer science and technology. It is our great pleasure to present the May 2016 issue PART 2 (Volume 14 Number 5 Part 2) of the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS). Keywords-X-means clustering Educational Data Mining (EDM) Performance Prediction Decision Tree. Based on the resulting insights, this study proposes pragmatic intervention strategies universities can take for supporting both the weaker and the particularly strong students. This study makes use of data mining methods for predicting the learn success of the student based on pre-study marks and marks early in the study program. Data mining techniques are employed to operate on huge amounts of data to find out hidden patterns and associations that can be helpful in decision making. A very promising arena in order to accomplish this goal is the use of Data Mining. By early predicting students’ achievement near the beginning of the degree program facilitates universities to promote better students on one side, and on the other side, to provide additional teaching support to the weaker ones. ![]() Abstract - Predicting student’s academic achievement has long been a significant research area in many educational institutions. ![]() ![]() ![]() We're gonna blame this one on TikTok's obsession with Smashmouth. ![]() Instead of seeing a resurgence of names popular in the '80s, trendwatchers are seeing references to '80s pop culture. The '80s are back in a big way, but not in the way names usually cycle. Or, as Nameberry puts it, "The old adage that 'less is more' has lost its luster, and more is back to being more!" Popular Maximalist names include: Many parents are no longer finding the need to use restraint when naming their children. Life is a mixed bag right now, and so too, it seems, are naming trends. In essence, there are also "micro-trends." While lists of top names often had very clear and obvious winners, like Olivia or Aidan, there's a little less of the heavy-handed use of certain names. ![]() The various trends don't blend into each other either, and even within trends, naming fanatics are seeing splits or fractures. Parents are still seeking to find individual or rare approaches to naming and looking for ways to make their families and their children stand out. Nameberry also notes that while you can see a clear shift in mood, the naming trends also line up with the fractured state of our country. In the '60s, it followed World War II and the conservative 1950s. In the '20s, it came after the flu epidemic, World War I, the revolutions. "As in the 1920s and '60s, there's a wish to leave everything from the 'before' times behind. A complete reinvention of mood and style," says Nameberry founder Pam Redmond. Feeling of a new world, dancing as fast as we can. "There's a pop, upbeat, bright, 1920s/1960s vibe around. The naming trends for 2023 mark a sign of the times and a shift in our country's mood. What makes next year’s naming trends different than previous years? Trends come and go, but those perfect eyes, 10 tiny fingers, 10 tiny toes, and oh-so-perfect name for that oh-so-perfect baby are here for, well. While many people might shy away from names that are "trendy," you like what you like. You're not the only person obsessed with shows like Yellowstone or Big Sky who thinks a rustic western name is in the cards for your future outlaw. Many baby name trends are based on what's happening in the world around us. Of course, naming trends aren't something you have to follow - as a matter of fact, they often happen by sheer accident. Your older daughter might have an old lady name, or you might have gone with the "old trend" of using a rainbow color name or a name from fantasy. Earthy names or hippie names have also had their time in the sun. Country names were the big fad (and still are, with a twist) for a hot second. Nameberry just announced the most popular baby name trends for 2023, and, honestly, it's better than New York Fashion Week. ![]() ![]() ![]() On that fateful day when the group would ascend the Yggdrasil and reach the Moon, Hilda would witness God, in reality the Mother Qualia, afflict Elcrest with a severe strain of negative energies. Accompanying Elcrest with the four other witches, the Forgotten King Xeno, and Technolomy Veronica, Hilda grew close to the Conductor, possibly to the point of loving him. Taken by the man's honest answer, Hilda pledged her allegiance to him. Initially apprehensive of his intentions, Hilda warned him of her status as a Witch, to which Elcrest dismissed her doubts stating that he would "have no right in saving the world if couldn't handle one girl". She was met by Elcrest, who tuned her and requested she lend him her strength in defeating God. Spoiler Warning: This section contains major plot details!Ī thousand years prior to the events of the main story, Hilda became the Time Witch at some point during the period of the second Eclipse. She has a hard time forgetting Elcrest, and is more embarrassed by that then her own privacy. Despite appearing cold and composed to everyone, she is shown to take genuine care of her subordinates. She has also the tendency to be frank to others, particularly when she simply responded she was a witch and is confident with her title 'Witch of Destruction'. Initially, Hilda comes off as polite towards Alto and helps him fight during the prologue. She wears armor on her arms and a revealing outfit, with skin colored outfit on her torso and her legs.Ĭuriously, Hilda's in-game battle model depicts her with slightly darker skin, bordering the tan of the material present on her torso. Her attire consists of a large black witch hat, with a sort of crown motif on it and wearing a cape that splits at the ends. 3.9 Chapter 9 - Chapter 9 - The End of the World.3.8 Chapter 7 - Chapter 8 - Let the Anthem Ring. ![]() ![]() SketchUp gives you several options for doing so, all of which are explained in Sticking a Photo or Texture to a Face. However, you may want a single photo to cover a face instead. In SketchUp, texture materials are typically photos that are tiled on a face. Adding Colors and Textures with Materials explains how to work with materials. For example, if you’re creating a precise model of something that you plan to build in real life, you can use the color and texture materials to determine details such as how much surface area you need to paint or how many square feet of tile you need. Tip: The color and texture materials not only add detail to model, but also enable you to swap one material for another with a click and to calculate what materials you need. SketchUp Hardware and Software RequirementsĪpplying Colors, Photos, Materials, and Textures. ![]() Using SketchUp Data with Other Modeling Programs or Tools. ![]() Modeling Terrain and Other Rounded Shapes.Using SketchUp’s Generate Report Service.Placing Movie Cameras in a Model of a Production Set.Developing Components and Dynamic Components.Adding Premade Components and Dynamic Components.Getting Started with Modeling from Trimble Vision Imagery.Matching a Photo to a Model (or a Model to a Photo).Adding Colors and Textures with Materials.Applying Colors, Photos, Materials, and Textures.SketchUp 2021 - Frequently Asked Questions.Read more for a deep dive of all new features. You can now use any textures for volumes. Up until recently you could only use static colors for absorption, scattering and emission in volumes. Octane also allows you to mix/layer vector/height displacement maps using the new displacement mixer node. This is a robust displacement system which doesn’t suffer the same limitations as the old displacement system (which is now known as Texture Displacement). You can now render procedural and OSL vertex displacement (either height or vector displacement) before rendering. Spectron™ software module utilizes Procedural Volumetric Lights allowing you to create procedurally driven volumetric lighting – like spot lights – with blockers, barn doors, gels and more. With Vectron you can create procedurally generated scenes entirely on the GPU without using GPU VRAM and with zero memory footprint. Vectron™ software module utilizes Vector-Polygon geometry to provide infinite procedurally generated scenes, volumes, and geometry which bypass meshes and volumes. With Random Walk SSS and Octane’s new Spectral Hair Material, you can easily create photorealistic digital characters.The Spectral Hair Material enables different coloring modes for hair, as well as multiple roughness parameters for different scattering behavior along a hair strand. Spectral Random Walk SSS and Hair MaterialĪ new Random Walk medium allows you to create ultra realistic skin and other absorption / scattering materials in Octane.With unique layered materials, Octane empowers you to recreate complex materials in a physically-based manner as opposed to manually mixing materials together. New nodes include: layered material, diffuse layer, specular layer, sheen layer, metallic layer, and layer group nodes. The new layered material system allows you to construct a complex material that consists of a base layer, with a maximum of 8 layers which can be inserted on top of the base layer. RTX acceleration speed gains increase in more complex scenes and can be benchmarked using RTX OctaneBench ®. Octane RTX hardware acceleration brings 2-5x render speed increases to NVIDIA raytracing GPUs with multi-GPU support. OTOY ® is proud to advance state of the art graphics technologies with groundbreaking machine learning optimizations, out-of-core geometry support, massive 10-100x speed gains in the scene graph, and RTX raytracing GPU hardware acceleration. OctaneRender ® is the world’s first and fastest unbiased, spectrally correct GPU render engine, delivering quality and speed unrivaled by any production renderer on the market. ![]() In this real-time capture, Octane 4’s AI Denoiser and AI Light system are working together to clean up the Italian room at just 50 samples, and the new scene graph, powered by Brigade, instantly moves high-poly objects on the city streets. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have trouble figuring out which device is the problem, remove all your USB devices the next time you put your computer to sleep, and see if it wakes up on its own. I’d bet dollars to donuts it's your mouse or keyboard-maybe your cat thinks it's a fun toy when you aren’t looking-but it could be anything. Windows may tell you a USB device is waking your computer, but you’ll have to find the offending device. In Windows 11, it's called Create Custom View. In the sidebar, head to Windows Logs > System, then click Filter Current Log on the right side of the window. Click the Start menu, search for "Event Viewer," and launch the tool. I’ve also had luck searching Windows’ Event Viewer for information. If that command didn’t give you useful information, try this one: powercfg -waketimers In other cases, it may list a specific hardware device, and you can skip down to the relevant section in this article, or do web search for what settings to change on that device. In that case, your search is over, and you can adjust that program’s settings or uninstall it to stop the problem. For example, the last time my workstation woke up, it was due to my cloud backup program running its scheduled backup for the evening. If you’re lucky, it’ll give you a clear answer. Type the following command and press Enter: powercfg -lastwake Windows knows what woke up your computer most recently, so the next time it wakes up unexpectedly, open the Start menu and search “cmd,” then right-click the Command Prompt and choose Run As Administrator. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files. ![]() How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. ![]() ![]() ![]() The animated documentary traces the story of an Afghan refugee and was met with acclaim after its Thursday premiere. ![]() It’s an environment that has increased the number of deals styled like the “Palm Springs” one, where a savvy arthouse distributor can release a film in theaters to build prestige buzz, but without the worry of selling enough tickets to afford such an expensive movie.Įarlier Friday, Neon made the first deal of the 2021 festival when it purchased Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee” in a low seven-figure deal. Streamers judge deals in much different ways than theatrical distributors, chief among the differences is that streamers don’t have to worry about grosses. That the sales record has been smashed a second year in a row in a deal with a streamer shows just how powerful a force new digital players are. That bested the previous record set by “The Birth of a Nation” in 2016, sold to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million. The big buy out of last year’s festival was Andy Samberg comedy “Palm Springs,” which sold to Neon and Hulu somewhere between $17.5-22.5 million. ICM Partners and CAA Media Finance negotiated the deal. CODA, Sian Heder’s story of a young woman torn between pursuing her dreams and being a lifeline for her deaf family and the outside world, isn’t just a Sundance movie: it’s arguably the Sundance. The world has waited too long for these stories to be told. Coda smashed the Sundance sales record just a year after Palm Springs did the same, courtesy of Hulu and Neon’s estimated 20 million buy. “I hope that this film and Apple’s powerful support will help kick down some doors standing in the way of inclusion and representation and pave a path for more stories that center characters from the Deaf and Disabled community. Sundance CODA, the coming-of-age drama that premiered Thursday to raves, has sold to Apple for around 25 million, smashing the sales record set last year when Neon and Hulu teamed up to buy. The whole CODA team is also so grateful to Sundance for being a part of the film’s journey,” Heder said. ![]() “I have been so moved by the outpouring of response to the film and am so excited to have found a partner in Apple that loves and deeply gets this movie, the spirit in which it was created and is committed to having this film reach the widest audience possible in a thoughtful and meaningful way. 'The Lord of the Rings': Everything You Need to Know About Amazon's Big Money Adaptation The Best 30 LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now How the Ravenous 'Teeth' Defanged the Male Gaze Sundance Sets Restorations of 'SLAM' and Gregg Araki's 'Doom Generation' for 2023 Fest The online response was rapturous, quickly painting a picture of a crowd pleasing movie with a lot of heart, exactly the kind of film that streamers can’t resist spending a huge amount of money on in this era. ![]() ![]() Adding emulation, video, sound and controller preferences. ISOs are the PS2 matches you download to your PC.Ĭonfig: Here you can configure most of facets of the PCSX2 emulator. One other options are selected automatically and therefore do not be concerned about them.ĬDVD: Below you will get your ISO selector. Click Boot CDVD fast or full to run your own game. System: You will go here whenever you would like to play a match. We’ll go through every UI option from the left to right and explain its function. The PCSX2 interface will pop up on your screen. The install and setup are all now complete. Copy the content out of the bios file you saved earlier in the day and glue it into this folder. ![]() Bios are essentially the PS2 console files. Select your favorite language and then click Next.įinally, you want to pick your bios. You will soon be asked to pick a language. The first time configuration window will pop. Proceed to your new PCSX2 1.4.0 desktop and double click. If it’s complete choose the Close option. The Setup Wizard will install PCSX2 to your PC. Then you will be provided with the choice to choose your components. Then go to a PCSX2.exe file and double click to open the installation Wizard. It’s possible to extract the zipfile with the Windows default option ZIP extraction tool. Just click the down load button and wait for the ZIP file to download. You may receive these out of RomsMania here. Download PS2 BiosĪfter you get into the emulator. When you click download, a file named pcsx2-1.4.0-setup.exe will download to your PC. The computer software is available for several systems including Windows Linux and Mac. But, that’s not the situation.įirstly, goto the PCSX2 official internet site and down load the software. You would presume as it’s old it would be simple for a new computer to perform. The thing is, it’s actually quite a tricky games console to emulate. This is just a frequent question before people download the PS2 emulator. So this can be actually a brand new and updated guide that 100 percent gets you ready to go and playing your favorite PS2 classics in less than five minutes. There are some changes through the last few years and some websites providing games aren’t running. It permits you to play almost any PS2 game out of your computer. Here is the best collection ps2 emulator bios at this site ‘ve probably sold your PS2 or pitched it out a long time past.įortunately for you, you do not need to buy a PS2 again and proceed scavenging that the net for old PS2 discs. ![]() You need those nostalgic feels back! You’ve never played with a PS2 game in the past years. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was highly against the rules, and many players have been permanently banned for it although this was hard to catch due to the player not saying anything during the drop trade transfer. Many players would have "mule" characters, which would serve as an item bank, and transfers would be done through drop trading. This use of drop trading was used when having two clients opened at the same time was not possible.ĭrop trading was used even more before banks that could hold items were introduced to the game. The message usually lists possible ways to recover the item as well.ĭrop trading is the term given to the trading method by which one player drops an item to give to another player, and, after waiting for the item to become visible, the receiving player picks it up.ĭrop trading has been used historically as a way of breaking Rule 6 (Account Sharing/Trading), which dictated that no items may be transferred between players of the same owner, usually a main account and a pure. Because of this, when a player attempts to destroy an item, they will always get a warning message. The destroy function is similar to the drop it likewise removes the item from the inventory, but unlike drop, it does not appear on the game screen and cannot be recovered. The drop function is replaced by the destroy function in certain items, usually holiday items or items requiring a specific skill or quest, etc. If a player receives an item useless to him or her (such as a few gp given out by a Random event), it is often dropped promptly so as to not waste inventory space. For example, if a player wishes to bury the bones in front of him, they may drop his coins, pick up and bury the bones, and then recover the coins. Tradeable items appear to other players 60 seconds after being dropped, and disappear after another 120 seconds if not picked up.ĭrop is normally used to free a space in the player's inventory, whether temporarily or permanently. However, items dropped on the ground disappear after a certain time. There is no limit to the number of items that can fit in one place on the ground. A dropped item will disappear after three minutes. Destroyed items do not appear where the player was standing, and to recover it, the player will have to return to the original source of the item (or a special NPC that replaces them). Every item holds this function, except for certain untradeable items (such as Holiday Items) where the drop function is replaced by 'destroy'. A dropped item does appear on the ground where the player was standing, and can be recovered at any time. The drop function is the action in which a player removes an item from his or her inventory, replacing it on the ground. For the items that monsters drop when they die, see Drops. This article is about the function that allows players to remove items from their inventories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() LOTS MORE TO COME AS THIS PROJECT DEVELOPS! Think Super Mario Kart arenas-but with bloody deaths and dismemberments! Deathmatch Arena: Challenge Friends in a battle to the death.Would include weapons, power-ups, and epic boss fights. Adventure Time: This game mode would play similar to a 3D platformer adventure game-but in vehicles and totally physics driven.(Hey, local budgets are really tight!) Your job is to pick up and deliver passengers to their destinations as quickly as possible-with minimum casualties or collateral damage. You are a bus/taxi driver… except your bus/taxi is just an old pickup truck, painted yellow, with wooden bench seats bolted into the bed. I’ll look to fans to point me in the right direction on this one. If this game is popular enough, I plan on building additional Game Modes as well. Steam integration: Leaderboards, Achievements, level sharing, etc.Time of day system: this means racing at night, evening, or with realtime lighting changes over the course of the race!. ![]() Loads of Hazards, Special Items, and maybe even Power-Ups?.100 “official” Tracks, spread across 10 different themed Maps.AI Characters that wander around, run away screaming, chase you with chainsaws, etc.Destructible environments/props: smash through windows, thin walls, fences, crates, signs, vases, etc.Full controller support (PS, Xbox, Steam, generic, etc.).Track Maker (plus share and search functions).Determined players on tough tracks will find themselves hobbling across the finish line bloodied, missing limbs, stuck full of arrows, on a smashed vehicle only one hit away from being incapacitated! Wheels can be popped or just knocked off completely. Vehicles get dented, smashed and lose parts. This means that every turn, every crash, and every death is unique-and often results in hilarious scenarios! Severed limbs spray blood all over nearby characters and the environment as you struggle to hang on and reach the finish line. They’ll race to the finish line through 3D worlds with full 360 degrees of freedom, dodging all sorts of hazards, including sawblade windmills, giant wrecking balls, medieval cannons and crazy turrets.Įach vehicle is completely physics-driven, with 100% ragdoll riders, realtime dismemberment, and vehicle damage. Players will select from a wide variety of vehicles, including realistic bicycles, poorly built cars, and rocket-powered homemade contraptions (and a WHOLE LOT MORE). The first game mode planned is a "survival racing experience." Guts and Glory is a game about ordinary people competing in extraordinary challenges of life and death! ![]() |