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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Technical Readout: 3025 had several print runs with various changes incorporated at different times, though these were not properly marked and the ISBN remained the same. Heavy 'Mechs Dragon Ostroc Ostsol Quickdraw Rifleman Catapult Crusader JagerMech Thunderbolt Archer Grasshopper Warhammer Marauder Orion Assault 'Mechs Awesome Charger Goliath Victor Zeus BattleMaster Stalker Cyclops Banshee Atlas LAMs Stinger LAM Wasp LAM Phoenix Hawk LAM Aerospace Fighters Davion Sparrowhawk Corsair Stuka Kurita Sholagar Shilone Slayer Liao Thrush Transit Transgressor Marik Cheetah Stingray Riever Steiner Seydlitz Lucifer Chippewa DropShips Leopard DropShip Union DropShip Overlord DropShip Vehicles SwiftWind Scout Car Rommel/ Patton Tanks Von Luckner Heavy Tank Galleon Light Tank Packrat Long Range Patrol Vehicle Mobile Long Tom Artillery Boomerang Observation Plane Mobile HQ Coolant Trucks Ordnance Transport MASH Repair Installation Index Printings and Changes Introduction Light 'Mechs Locust Wasp Stinger Commando Javelin Spider UrbanMech Valkyrie Firestarter Jenner Ostscout Panther Medium 'Mechs Assassin Cicada Clint Hermes II Vulcan Whitworth Blackjack Hatchetman Phoenix Hawk Vindicator Centurion Enforcer Hunchback Trebuchet Dervish Griffin Shadow Hawk Scorpion Wolverine In all, 55 'Mechs, 15 fighters, 3 LAMs, 4 DropShips, and 12 Vehicles are described and illustrated, making this volume a must for all, from historians to MechWarriors. Focusing on BattleMechs and Aerospace Fighters, this volume also discusses important combat and support vehicles as well as the rare Land-Air-Mechs. This Technical Readout lists the capabilities and history of the most common pieces of military hardware used by the major houses of the Successor States in the year 3025. "The most complete equipment reference book published to date" The book was reissued and updated in 1996 as Technical Readout: 3025 Revised, which was in turn eventually superseded in 2009 by Technical Readout: 3039. fourth printing) to $15.00 (later editions of July 1994 printing, after earlier editions were still $12.00). The MSRP was gradually increased from $9.95 to $12.00 (later editions of "third" printing, i.e. Several minor, unmarked corrections and changes were made over time, see Editions below. A core game supplement as much as a universe sourcebook, it provided game attributes and fluff for the units included and general background details for the BattleTech universe, and would serve as a template for a whole series of similar books that was said to be one of the setting's best-selling product lines.įramed as a publication by ComStar Publishing from the year 3025, the book provides detailed in-universe write-ups on 55 BattleMechs, 15 aerospace fighters, 3 LAMs, 4 DropShips and 12 combat vehicles including all 'Mechs, LAMs, and DropShips (but none of the aerospace fighters or vehicles) featured in the various boxed sets published until then, namely Battledroids/ BattleTech, Second Edition, CityTech, and AeroTech. Technical Readout: 3025 was one of the first BattleTech sourcebooks ever, and the first that was not a scenario pack centered on an individual 'Mech company (four of which were published in the same or preceding year). ![]() ![]() ![]() The other characters are hostile towards Kanji's sexuality When questioned, Kanji insists "this ain't what you think!", afraid to open up. "He may have some sort of complex," says one character describing Kanji, as if sexuality is an issue to be cured, while others describe him as strange. Handled sensitively this could have been an ideal exploration for a Persona game, with the series focused on self-reflection and acceptance to overcome trauma.Įxcept it isn't, for two reasons: the lack of empathy shown by the other characters, and Kanji's own lack of acceptance or resolution. He lashes out at others and is quick to temper because he's struggling to accept himself. It's clear he's suffering from internalised homophobia - self-hatred due to his sexuality. Its teen protagonists are on a mission to assist characters with self-acceptance by - of all things - exploring a dungeon of the mind that reflects their repressed inner-desires and subconscious demons. The Persona games thrive on psychoanalysis and purport to tackle tough subject matters. Playing through his story arc is deeply uncomfortable. He's just portrayed using harmful stereotypes that are at best awkward and at worst downright homophobic. He's aggressive, unlikeable, and a delinquent. Kanji is a fellow student who has dropped out of school to beat up the local biker gang. Speaking of societal norms, let's discuss Kanji. Just two examples of the frequent misogyny present in dialogue I chose neither and my character's courage increased: it does take courage to not fit societal norms, after all. That's made explicit when male friend Yosuke directly asks the player which girl he'd rather date, as if fancying at least one of them is inevitable. The two girls the hero befriends are heavily stereotyped between the quiet pretty one and the outspoken nerdy one - it's clear which is considered more desirable. They're almost constantly hit on, be it by their friends or even their creepy teachers. Female characters exist almost always under a male gaze, their worth directly relating to their looks. It's the poor representation that has truly soured my time with the game, however. Yet throughout my time with P4G so far, I can't shake the feeling of overfamiliarity. And the j-pop music, as always, is pure joy. The smaller scale feels more manageable too. The smalltown Japan setting and murder mystery story offer a more intimate slice of life vibe away from P5's hectic vision of Tokyo. It's even got the same weird Velvet Room where your Persona powers are manipulated. The game unfolds in a strict calendar format, each day full of choice: dungeon crawling, shopping, socialising, and more. You form bonds with your fellow schoolmates - the jock, the pretty one, the feisty one - who each discover the powers of their own Persona in a parallel world contained within technology (here a TV, in P5 a mobile phone). You play as a young man who moves to a new school in a new area of mysterious happenings. ![]() It's not beyond criticism from fresh eyes in fact, this is an opportunity to reflect on the past and appreciate how far representation in games has come.Īs with other games in the series, P4G follows the same dungeon-crawling JRPG and social simulation structure for a formulaic experience. But after the success of Persona 5, this release of P4G is bringing the game to a new (more global) audience. After all, it's a product of its time and of its culture. It may seem unfair to critique a Japanese game from over a decade ago for having outdated views. This isn't a fine red wine, but a bottle of sparkling that's gone flat. ![]() Yet with its outdated stereotypes and dialogue filled with misogyny and homophobia, P4G has not aged well. Persona Series - Announce Trailer | Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switchįirst released in 2008 and followed by the Golden version on PS Vita in 2012, this launch is something of a retro re-release. Working backwards, I jumped into P4G - a game many consider to be a high point in the series. It also left me intrigued about its predecessors, which are finally now available beyond PlayStation with the release of Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden on Switch and Xbox. It instantly became one of my favourites. Its mix of social management and JRPG was like nothing I'd experienced, its soundtrack was infectious, its teen drama thrilling. I'd never previously played a game in the Persona (or Shin Megami Tensei) series. ![]() Previously it was Breath of the Wild and The Witcher 3. Each year, there's often one game that dominates my time for a hundred or so hours. ![]() ![]() Maybe someone else knows of something like this. You can also use this function to upscale or downscale images while maintaining its quality. If someone has handed you a thousand photographs that you feel have incorrect aspect ratios, there is no AI that I know of that would auto-correct this. 3 Methods to Stretch an Image or Layer in Photoshop Using Image Size Function to Adjust Image Size The Image Size function is one of the easiest ways to stretch an image in Photoshop. That would be harder to detect unless you notice something visually. ![]() If you feel you have messed up the size or aspect ratio of your artboard, that is a different issue. You can use REVERT to undo the changes you have made to the image. If you have a single image open and you feel you have accidentally messed up the aspect ratio, it should be easy to see the issue around the edges of your image as the artboard should be the same size as your original. Adobe is kind of building these features into their applications to prevent exactly what your talking about. How-to Graphic design Blend images in Photoshop. How-to Video Make split-screen magic in Adobe Premiere Pro. Photoshop won't let you change the aspect ratio accidentally or otherwise unless you now do the opposite and hold down the SHIFT key. How to Make a Stretch Effect in Adobe Photoshop Did you enjoy this page Not really You may also like How-to Graphic design Turn a photo into a stamp-like brush in Adobe Photoshop. When re-sizing using something like FREE TRANSFORM, just grab a corner transform of your text, image or graphic object and drag. In the current versions of Photoshop, this is not necessary. As stated previously, in previous versions of Photoshop, when we entered FREE TRANSFORM (Command/Control+T) to re-size an image, maintaining the aspect ratio proportionally, we had to hold the SHIFT key down. Other than a visual indication like "that circle is not a real circle" or "that square is not a square" or "that person appears stretched and distorted, it's all about using the tools correctly. ![]() It's something usually an artist looks at and understands that it is wrong. Photoshop generally doesn't know what you consider to be "stretched" or "distorted/compressed". ![]() Aside from this, Photoshop allows you to accidentally or intentionally perform destructive modifications to your images. In the new Photoshop versions, just don't hold down SHIFT when re-sizing your images. ![]() ![]() The age and mount style dictates which diagram you are going to need, as does the hydraulic unit model number, and brand of plow lights, which controller you have, etc. You MUST know most of this before you can locate the wiring diagram you need. So that is why there are mounts, Moldboards, Lift Frames, etc. The good news is you can write it down once figured out, and never have to wonder again. Unless you like paying someone else to fix everything (which I do not think is the case) it is in your best interest to spend the time required to identify what you have. It is going to be long, but you WILL find the help you need. Hopefully this new page will put it all into perspective. That is just one part of a complete plow system. I am quick to correct the callers, pointing out that the Meyer E-47, and the Meyer E-60 are just pumps. Now, this is where the "have to know exactly what you have" I mentioned above comes into play. Another thing people say when they call asking for help, are things like "I have a Meyer E-47 Plow", or "I have a Meyer E-60 Plow". If you don't know, you are just wasting your time, or might get lucky, and find what you need. Now, all of the above diagrams are here on our web sites, or we have links to them on our sites, but you have to know exactly what you are looking for. I regularly review what web sites sent visitors to our web sites, and what keywords or phrases those visitors were searching that brought them to one of our many Meyer Plow web sites. ![]() Help identifying what you need the diagram for ![]() ![]() ![]() But for users who create personal projects, educational video content, like to listen to podcasts, or want to watch their favorite TV show without annoying ads, it will be important to be able to download the needed video to your device. In the age of video streaming services, it seems confusing why you should download video to your computer if you can watch it online. So you can buy Downie 4 through SetApp at a very good price and get access to many other software as well. Setapp also includes many famous and useful software such as CleanMyMac, Ulysses, Gemini 2, PDFpen, etc. Setapp has an annual subscription with which you can save 10% and the monthly payment will be $8.99. SetApp is a subscription-based service with a collection of (an ever-growing) 220+ Mac apps in one place, developed by MacPaw, and Downie 4 is one of its included apps. Or purchase from Setapp for a discounted price of $9.99 per month. To continue using Downie, you can purchase an annual license from the developer’s official website for $19,99. How much does Downie cost? Downie 4 Discount?ĭownie 4 offers a free trial version with which you can download an unlimited number of videos, but the trial is only valid for 7 days. ![]() And, obviously, if you want to sell someone else’s video, then this action involves the area of copyright infringement. However, if you want to download someone else’s videos, then that’s a gray area. If you want to download videos that you yourself have uploaded to these sites you will not be violating any copyright laws. It is important to note that while it is possible to download videos from places on the Internet such as YouTube or Facebook, this is not always ethical or legal. It saves a lot of desktop space.ĭownie 4 is a box where you drag-n-drop the URL and the program starts downloading your favorite videos within seconds. This is convenient because you do not need to keep the application open. You can control the application from the menu bar. One of the main advantages of Downie 4 is its simple interface. Much, much more! - many minor improvements, like custom naming schemes, option to force MP4 downloads, better cancellation, priority flags, etc.Downie 4 is an Internet video downloader for Mac that helps you easily download videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Blip TV, Liveleak, Lynda, Break, Vube, Ustream, Ted, Facebook, and other sites.Option to Go Menu-Only - the long-awaited ability to run Downie just in the menu bar has finally arrived.Customizable Postprocessing - you can now write your own shell script to handle custom postprocessing.Improved User-Guided Extraction - the UGE window now has history, allows saving favorites and much more.Metadata Improvements - the metadata that Downie gathers can be written into an external JSON file for further custom processing.Sandbox - Downie 4 is now sandboxed for better security.Major speed improvements - several links can now be loaded at once and YouTube videos get prepared for downloads about 6x faster than in Downie 3 (based on time required to process a 30-item YouTube playlist on iMac 27'' (2019)).Updated UI - the UI has been revised and updated, offering more options at the tip of the mouse.If your language is missing, contact us - we can offer you a free license in exchange for a translation.ĭownie 4 brings many new features, main being listed here: International - not only that Downie supports country-specific sites, it is localized into various languages.Frequent updates - Don‘t wait weeks for new sites to be supported, or bugs to be fixed! Downie is updated about once a week with new features, sites supported, etc.Quick support - I respond to emails usually within 24 hours and often add support for requested sites in the next update.Postprocessing - need your video in MP4 for iTunes? Or want just the audio track? No problem, Downie can handle this for you automatically!.4K video YouTube support - unlike many other YouTube downloaders, Downie supports HD video on YouTube, up to 4K.Supports many sites - currently supports over 1,000 different sites (including YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and the number is rapidly growing. ![]() It isn't simply another YouTube-downloader: Downie supports at this moment over 700 different sites! The full list may be viewed in Downie's preferences, under the Sites tab. Easily download videos from thousands of different sitesĭownie is the only video download for macOS you will ever need. ![]() ![]() ![]() The app features thousands of lines of dialogue, along with colorful scenery and characters that react to the weather. It's really the personality of the app, tailored to your specific weather conditions. The iOS app also comes with an iMessage app that lets you send weather forecasts to your friends. It also features colorful illustrations to reflect the current weather, along with a healthy dose of snark to give weather reporting a little more personality. What is CARROT Weather?įrom Developer Grailr, CARROT Weather is a weather and forecasting app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch that shows you your current weather conditions, as well as highly-detailed forecasts for the next seven days. There are also a number of options available for the Apple Watch app.ĬARROT Weather 4.0 also comes with more secret locations, the ability to change the app's personality modes, improved weather radar, and the ability to pinpoint your exact location on a map. If you subscribe to the $2.49 a year Premium Club, you can now choose between Dark Sky and Weather Underground as your data source, and customize what your Current, Hourly, and Daily weather readouts look like line by line. Now when you open CARROT Weather, the top half of the screen will tell you the current weather, while the bottom half will give you both an hour-by-hour forecast of temperatures and conditions, as well as the forecast for the next several days.Īnother big change has arrived for Premium Club members: customization for pretty much every piece of data you see in CARROT Weather. 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Forecast sharing: We've all been there: CARROT says something insulting and hilarious about the weather, and you desperately want to share it with your friends or followers on social media.New hint system for the secret locations mini-game: Struggle with using your inferior meat brain to solve CARROT's tricky puzzles? CARROT 4.7 also includes a new hint system to make things a little easier for you.New secret locations: If you're one of the individuals into CARROT's secret locations mini-game within the app, get excited: CARROT 4.7 offers 10 brand spankin' new missions that will take you to KGB headquarters in Moscow, the giant stone heads in Easter Island, and beyond.Note that some map layers and other new features do require an Ultrapremium Club subscription because weather map data is, and I quote, "very expensive." However, if you're really into weather, it's actually kind of a steal at $9.99/year. (I personally advise that you avoid them.) 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Overhauled weather maps: CARROT 4.7 offers a completely overhauled weather map system with 15 - yes, 15 - map layers.In addition to tons of new dialogue, performance improvements, and bug fixes, here are all the incredibly cool new features your foul-mouthed robot friend has cooked up for you: JCARROT 4.7 allows you to use your sausage fingers to share your forecastsĪttention, humans: version 4.7 of CARROT has officially arrived, allowing access to even more weather data (and more fun) in your desolate city than ever before. “Room temperature” is generally defined in physics to be \(25^oC\).The update is rolling out to all iOS devices starting today. ![]() ![]() To convert between Fahrenheit and Kelvin, convert to Celsius as an intermediate step.Ĭonverting between Temperature Scales - Room Temperature ![]() ![]() ![]() This is covered in a new section Special Variables For Functions. CMake 3.18 also added support for a number of CMAKE_CURRENT_FUNCTION* variables which can be used to provide information about the function currently being executed.CMake 3.18 added a new cmake_language() command, which is now covered in a new section Other Ways Of Invoking CMake Code.This chapter was substantially reworked and expanded to better cover argument handling and other features new in CMake 3.18. Variables past the end of shorter lists are undefined, not set to empty. Correct a slightly inaccurate statement about what variables are defined for the IN ZIP_LISTS form of the foreach() command.A new section Problems With Unbalanced Square Brackets was added to cover a less well-known aspect of CMake’s list handling behavior.CMake added a new NATURAL sorting option for the list(SORT) command.Added a note that the ccmake tool is not part of the official CMake packages for Windows.Only the essential points have been retained in the Variables chapter to avoid distracting the reader from the main focus. Most of the section covering the message() command has been moved to its own new chapter ( Debugging And Diagnostics).The PDF file size has also been significantly reduced by about 60% through additional post-processing. The EPUB and MOBI formats do not have an index at the end of the book.Some EPUB and MOBI code examples have slight differences (typically just formatting) to allow for better readability on devices with narrower widths.The formats contain the same content with the following minor differences: ![]() The formats in which the book is available has been expanded to include PDF, EPUB and MOBI. The following lists the main changes in this edition. For the first time, the book is now also available in EPUB and MOBI formats, in addition to the usual PDF. Major highlights for this edition include significantly expanded coverage of command argument handling and a new chapter on debugging and diagnostics for running CMake. It includes new, updated and reorganized material. The 7th Edition has been updated for the CMake 3.18 release. This is part of the change history for the book Professional CMake: A Practical Guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() The restricted groups include directors, key employees. There is greater NPL (non-performing loans) in the country than in Brazil, since, according to Nubank, Mexico has 12% of the population with credit, indicating greater “consumer pain”. During this period, insiders and blockholders are precluded from selling their shares in the open market. When this period ends, the trading restrictions get removed. The lockup usually lasts between 90 and 180 days. Mexico is beating Brazil in NPS (net promoting score) metrics. A lockup period is a contract that states there is a period after a company goes public when the major shareholders are not allowed to sell their shares. Lock-up agreements, within the initial public offering topic, often prohibit insider shareholders from trade their securities for a specified time period.The company said it is capitalized enough to continue expanding the ecosystem, including through M&As If stock options vest before the IPO, employees may have to wait until after the lock-up period to exercise their options.The fintech said it was created in the midst of recessions in Brazil and knows how to navigate these cycles.Nubank expects that as the credit portfolio grows, margins should increase.Nubank grew its loan portfolio to $8.8 billion, “maintaining healthy credit levels,” said Vélez, at an investor conference after the results were released. Learning that the lockup provision prevents the immediate sales of a portion of shares for a pre-specified time, the supply of shares will be controlled. Current shareholders of a stock with an upcoming lock-up period should be aware of the possible negative effect the expiration can have on a stock. It is more expensive to finance a company that does not make substantial short-term profits. Credit, money for tech companies that are big on cash, is getting more expensive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or, you can go to a worksheet and drag the field from the measure section (listed at the bottom) to the Tables section at the top. ![]() You can change the datatype from measure (#) to string in the data pane like you did for date and geographic data above. Order ID or invoice number), define these fields as a string (Abc). For numerical data that you do not want to summarize or add up (i.e. Tableau will summarize measures or fields defined as numbers up to the level of detail on the worksheet. Make sure strings are defined as strings (denoted by Abc) and not measures (denoted by #) “#”), assign it the proper geographic role: In the data source tab or in a worksheet, click on Geographic Role and choose the correct role. If it is incorrectly assigned as a string (i.e. To know if your data is correctly assigned a geographic role, look for a small globe icon next to your data. It is important to have the geographic data correctly defined so that Tableau can visualize geographic data using a map. ST for state), Tableau may incorrectly assign another data type. But if you have field names that are not obvious (i.e. Tableau is also good at automatically assigning data that looks like city, state or zip with the correct geographic role. Make sure to define information such as country, city, state and zip/postal code as geographic data In addition, visualizations such as continuous line charts will require a Tableau Date.ģ. It is important to do this step in the beginning because Tableau dates have a built-in hierarchy that makes it easy to drill up and down (Year > Quarter > Month > Day) by simply clicking on the + sign. If this is the case, click on the Abc icon and choose Date as the data type. Tableau is good at converting fields that look like month, day, and year to the Tableau Date format but sometimes, it will incorrectly define a date as a string (Abc). Ship Date is defined as a Tableau Date, as denoted by the calendar icon). Order Date is a defined a string, as denoted by the “ Abc” icon. Make sure dates are defined as Tableau dates Once you check the box, you can review the results and decide whether the steps taken are what you want.Ģ. If your data is coming from Excel and has subtotals and extra data headers, Tableau Data Interpreter can clean that up for you automatically! It is as simple as checking the box next to Use Data Interpreter. Once you get done with your rush project, learn more about the benefits of data prep and modeling. These methods are perfect for these situations. Or just want to point Tableau to an Excel file and start delving into ways to visualize using Tableau. But we get it, sometimes you just need to get a dashboard up on running ASAP. That way, data is organized once for all Tableau users, saving a massive amount of time and ensuring reliable, consistent numbers across all dashboards. In a perfect world, we recommend prepping data before it gets to Tableau Desktop. These 10 straightforward practices will help you produce better performing dashboards, avoid unnecessary calculated fields, and simplify the visualization building process. We share data prep tips you can do quickly in Tableau Desktop to ensure data is as “Tableau friendly” as possible. Get unbiased perspectives based on real-world, hands-on experience. Taught by real-world subject matter experts. 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