![]() ![]() Zoom, notorious for a 2013 viral video featuring him literally popping his eyes out of their sockets (a condition known as proptosis) in time to Daft Punk.ĭaft Punk is certainly an inspirational touchstone for Magic Sword, although Magic Sword don’t completely share Daft Punk’s booty-shaking beat fetish. For a promo video in 2014, a hyperbolic screed aligned with Magic Sword’s comic book plotlines was delivered by Britain’s John Doyle, aka Mr. Magic Sword’s strategy is similar, and no less fun. Gwar has long disguised their marketing degrees behind alien costumes Nation of Ulysses entertainingly remained in political character during interviews. In performance, they remain masked and cloaked. Those pseudonyms are all that’s easily known about Magic Sword’s personnel. Enlisting Boise, Idaho based artist Shay Plummer, Magic Sword’s mythology lands with intriguing comic book installments, in which a ‘magic sword’ figures prominently and plotlines feature band member slash characters like the Keeper of the Magic Sword, the Seer of All Truths, and The Weaver of all Hearts and Souls. They’re also a full experience – a 360 degree roundhouse of live spectacle, fictional identities, and illustrated accompaniment on the page. For one thing, they’re uniformly vocals-free. Magic Sword may have materialized momentarily to witness synthmetal’s earliest incarnation, but they aren’t content to only update with touches of Kavinsky -esque synthesizer and modern-pedal guitar shred. ” Or, if you professionally crate dig: Neal Schon and Jan Hammer’s “Untold Passion ” album. ” Ronnie James Dio’s “ Rainbow in the Dark. To wit: The soundtrack for the film “ Heavy Metal. Around 1981, synthwave and pop-metal had a one-night-stand. As previously discussed, it’s been both strange and rewarding to see the rise once again of the kind of active instrumental synth rock that used to wash over the landscape in the wake of Tangerine Dream.Let’s take a trip. Much of the artists creating it labored in near-obscurity for years before the axis shifted their way once again, including S U R V I V E. The quartet has toiled away in the shadows of Austin’s music scene since 2008 before suddenly being thrust into the spotlight when two of its members provided the soundtrack to the Netflix hit Stranger Things. While well-deserved, the success of that series has overshadowed the band’s big-league recording debut RR7349. The group’s second album flows like the score to an obscure 80s science fiction flick, the kind that thrived on VHS and is remembered more for the music than the visuals. The creamy “Dirt,” the hazy “Sorcerer” and the pulsing “Wardenclyffe” utilize gorgeous electronic tones and enigmatic atmospheres that encourage you to make up your own bizarre 80s filmic artifact. RR7349 deserves to be spun as often as Stranger Things. Zombi has been at the forefront of the synthwave revival for years, and, as with S U R V I V E, one of its members has a side gig as a soundtrack composer. The Mind’s Eye is Steve Moore’s latest (though the film came out in 2015), following Cub earlier this year. As such, it’s much harder to divorce from the visuals it’s meant to accompany than his work with Zombi. That’s not to say he’s not a master of texture and movement – a tune like “The Shot” brings on the perfect atmosphere for the horror flick it supports, with just enough energy to keep from being wallpaper but not enough to distract from the action. Most of the pieces are under two minutes, so they die before they get old, though the closing “End Credits,” which encapsulates most of the ideas Moore put into the soundtrack, is a significant exception. Though not as compelling as Moore’s work with his main band, The Mind’s Eye still catches the ear. Mysterious ensemble Magic Sword also produces a soundtrack with Legend EP, the group’s second release. But it’s for a comic, instead of a film, one revolving around a strange, powerful weapon and the Keeper charged with guarding it. Fortunately, having the pages turn in front of you isn’t necessary to enjoy the sounds of these three tracks. A steady electro-pulse and buzzing bass tones keep the rhythms percolating as synths and guitars exchange melodies with dramatic flourishes. ![]() On paper it sounds like progressive rock, and there is some of that ambience, though the sonics favor early videogame music just as much.
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![]() ![]() Plus, its performance is also unreliable, and it has numerous broken aspects on the menu. It gets the job done, but its lack of transparency and the use of little-known VPN protocols make it risky for users. XVPN works as a simple VPN for basic tasks. Moreover, while it bypasses the geo-restrictions of streaming apps, the app cannot compete when it comes to speed and streaming profiles. The connection is also unreliable and behaves as though it is cutting in and out. Additionally, things freeze up entirely half the time. ![]() Moreover, while it has a huge number of servers, only a handful of them have fast upload and download speeds. However, if compared to standout VPN apps such as NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and Cyberghost, the app lags behind. In terms of performance, XVPN works well. First time users will have a hard time understanding the app's privacy policy as it provides few details. On top of that, the app also records the server location you used, the connection timestamp, protocol used, and the network type you used to connect to the server. It also stores your subscription status and payment, if you use the paid version-all of which are the standard processes. It does, however, collect your email address-required to create an account-and your registration data. It also doesn't store your originating IP address, the server IP address that you use, and your DNS queries. XVPN does not monitor your online activity. Most apps also offer to keep your privacy with their no-log policy. VPNs promises to give you anonymity as you browse. The protocols only use a five-star system to rate its speed, security, and ability to block. It also doesn't state what encryption standard it uses. Instead of the actual name, each protocol has a letter designation. The app has eight different protocols to choose from, but it doesn't provide any technical details. There's a minimal settings option, letting you configure the app to start on boot, enable the application control feature that automatically disconnects selected apps when you are not connected to XVPN. The app also categorizes the server locations by its global region. There's also a speedometer, used to run a built-in ping test to see the response time of the servers.XVPN further categorizes its servers by providing you a list of all the music and video services that the app unblocks, including Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, and Amazon Prime. The location menu comes with three tabs, one for recommended servers, one for favorites, and one that lists all the servers available. It is a simple app that allows you to remove processes which are draining your battery faster. A lot of people are already using this app to optimize their smartphones and tablets, and it has worked marvelously for them. However, it didn’t significantly improve the battery life with my newer device, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work for you. Personally, I have used the app and it has worked wonderfully in the past. ![]() Results may vary according to your device and locale.ĭU Battery Saver is one of the best battery saver apps on Android and has been for a while now. The apps were also able to optimize the device and locate anomalies in battery drainage. ![]() The apps worked fine, and there were no problems faced during testing. Note: The five Android apps to detect battery drain were tested on a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. I have personally used the top app on this list on my older smartphone and saw a significant increase in battery performance. These apps are made to terminate the battery drain itself. The need to install and run apps to detect battery drain still remains, though, because those features are there to extend the battery life. ![]() Now, there are a lot of manufacturers which are doing the same. They baked the features in their own version of Android and delivered exceptional battery savings. If I remember correctly, Sony was the first smartphone manufacturer to employ extreme battery saving measures. I’ll be honest, a lot of manufacturers are starting to use power saving features on their smartphones and tablets. ![]() Hydrodynamic efficiency is combined with optimized sensor integration to provide the best of both worlds: efficiency and productivity.Kongsberg Hugin AUV & LARS. HUGIN Edge returns to our original design philosophy of a smaller low drag body using the common architecture and user interface enabling interoperability of all HUGIN systems. Over the last few years, we have released the high performance HUGIN Superior, the pinnacle of survey capabilities within autonomous vehicles and HUGIN Endurance which stretches the operational range to 2200-line kilometers in a single dive. ![]() “In that time, the shape has changed, from a smooth low-drag design to a more traditional cylindrical hull form focused on modularity and providing a flexible configuration. “Since the first dive of HUGIN on 7th March 1993 it has evolved into the most successful commercial off-the-shelf autonomous underwater vehicle ever made,” said Richard Mills, Vice President of Marine Robotics Sales at Kongsberg Maritime. The design has been developed around Kongsberg’s automated Launch And Recovery (LAR) with battery charging through inductive power providing true over the horizon operations. This capability removes the human from the field of operations, enabling supervision from afar to minimize operational risk, maximize safety and deliver the lowest carbon footprint. This configuration has been designed to cover most geophysical survey requirements, as well as mine-countermeasures, rapid environmental assessment, search and recovery, as well as the survey of critical national infrastructure.įrom inception HUGIN Edge is designed to operate from Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), small surface vessels and from shore. The general arrangement includes the next generation of KONGSBERG synthetic aperture sonar, a high frequency multibeam echosounder and a swappable camera or sub-bottom profiler. It is packaged with the latest battery technology to provide more than 24 hours operation at depths of up to 1000 meters. ![]() Measuring less than 4 meters, HUGIN Edge weighs approximately 300kg. It is these in-mission edge-processing capabilities that drive step-changes in both performance and efficiency for all operations. In-mission adaptive execution allows HUGIN Edge to make several decisions autonomously, continuously replanning during mission execution as more information about the surrounding environment is gathered by the sensors. Mission objectives may include sounding density, or detection probability enabling the AUV to calculate the actual waypoints, operational parameters and sensor configuration. The mission planning capabilities provide a higher-level mission planning interface, requiring less specialist knowledge and input by the operator. Central to these are goal-based mission planning tools and mission execution. There are also new tools specifically designed to optimize results for every deployment. To enable greater interoperability, the vehicle is equipped with the latest open interfaces for integration to third party planning and mission management tools. HUGIN Edge includes significant new features and capabilities including an innovative forward looking sonar design providing 3D sensing capabilities for improved trajectory planning, and directional collision avoidance coupled to traditional forward scanning methodology. Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled the newest member of its HUGIN family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).ĭelivering exceptional durability and reliability, configured for ease of deployment from all platforms and offering class-leading sensor and navigation performance, HUGIN Edge combines elements of the HUGIN family’s carbon monocoque approach used successfully for the last 20 years coupled to extensive hydrodynamic modelling to refine the hull’s low-drag shape. ![]() Zoho Notebook is another wholly free app that has been improving and expanding to new platforms in recent years. You can pay $1.99 per month for 100GB of storage if you need more space. It comes with 15GB free, but that's shared with other Google apps such as Gmail and Google Photos. Google Keep uses Google Drive for storage. Google Keep is free, with no upsells or special plans, as long as you have a Google account. Joplin is free, but you have to provide your own storage. ![]() OneNote is free, for example-though you get more space and a handful of advanced features if you're a paying Microsoft 365 member. In fact, most apps have a generous free plan, with the notable exception of Evernote. There are a few other note-taking apps that don't charge a dime. Simplenote doesn't support uploads, multimedia, or even formatting-just text-so you'd have a hard time abusing limitless storage with that. That's a less risky strategy than it might sound. There's no limit on storage, as long as you don't abuse it, according to the company's terms. You don't ever have to pay to use Simplenote-there are no upgrade offers or in-app purchases. While many users have grown frustrated with Evernote over the years, and rightfully so, it has been an innovator in the note-taking apps category for years. Evernote is our third Editors' Choice pick. OneNote offers many more features and Joplin gives you more tools for organizing your notes. They are Microsoft OneNote and Joplin, which is also open source. Two of them are free, just like Simplenote. There are better choices, however PCMag has three Editors' Choice winners. For those firmly in the less-is-more camp, Simplenote is worth a look. This app is made for those who focus best when they aren't distracted by extra frills. You can use Markdown language (more on this below), but otherwise you don't get formatting or styling options for the text. Only text notes are supported, however, meaning there's no uploading images or recording voice memos. It's a straightforward synced note-taking app that's cross-platform and free, and it also includes collaboration options. Simplenote, owned by Automattic (which also runs and Tumblr), is a good option for anyone who doesn't need all that. The giants of the space, Evernote and OneNote, aim to do it all, offering rich features and support for multimedia. Not all note-taking apps are created equal. I guess what this bug is best described as: 'exec-path-from-shell-printf fails when zsh interactive shells auto-start tmux' discussion #12 This is because $TMUX is set, so the zprezto tmux module assumes you're already in tmux and doesn't start it again.) discussion #11 (Note: What threw me for a loop was that when I launching 'open -a Emacs' from within a tmux/zsh environment, Emacs started up just fine. However, possibly because this is emacs, it fails with a "open terminal failed: not a terminal" zprezto can also do this via screen, and I believe that the other zsh package, oh-my-zsh, can be configured to do this as well.Įxec-path-from-shell-printf runs printf from an interactive shell, causing tmux to start. Zprezto can be configured to, on interactive shells, automatically run tmux and attach to an existing sesssion (or create a new one). It looks like zprezto is doing something to cause this function to return nil. When Emacs.app doesn't work, (exec-path-from-shell-printf "%s" (list ("$PATH" "$MANPATH"))) returns nil. when Emacs.app works, (exec-path-from-shell-printf "%s" (list ("$PATH" "$MANPATH"))) returns what looks like path values. ![]() The thing is, I can't reproduce the error even if I try to get the value of a non-existent env var, e.g. Feel free to close the issue if you feel the issue is on zprezto's end. I have workarounds for my purposes, but I'm not sure whether exec-path-from-shell should be expected to handle an undefined MANPATH. Yeppers, zprezto explicitly does not set a MANPATH environment variable, see. ![]() It was still giving me problems if I chsh'd my shell to /bin/zsh, which allowed me to isolate the cause to something zprezto is doing (since I have it installed.) Removing the zprezto-supplied zsh config files allows Emacs to work properly, so zprezto must be clearing the manpath or something. What's that zsh version you've got? I just use the Apple-installed zsh 5.0.2. I guess if the OS X (tm) way is by changing the shell in terminal and/or prefpane, I'll do that :) discussion #5 changing it back to /bin/bash stops the problem, and modifying my profile in terminal/iterm to launch zsh instead doesn't cause any problems either. But FWIW, I'm using zsh on 10.9 here, and I also don't see the error you reported. You should probably set your shell preference in the Users prefpane, so it's used by default everywhere. The weird thing is that when I set /usr/local/bin/zsh as my shell in terminal/iTerm, doing 'open -a Emacs' works, but when using /bin/bash w/ "open -a Emacs", that's when I get the error. Oh weird! It's actually "/usr/local/bin/zsh", which is my homebrew install of ZSH. What's the result of evaluating (getenv "SHELL") using M-: ? discussion #2 And plenty of people must have this configuration, so I think part of the story must be missing here. I can't reproduce this on OS X 10.9 with bash. *el$" "Loading Prelude's core." require prelude-packages prelude-ui prelude-core prelude-mode prelude-editor prelude-global-keybindings darwin prelude-osx "Loading Prelude's modules." expand-file-name "custom.el" "Prelude is ready to do thy bidding, Master %s!" prelude-eval-after-init run-at-time 5 nil prelude-tip-of-the-day prelude-modules-file prelude-personal-dir custom-file current-user] 6) I updated my packages via ELPA and MELPA, so I should have the tcsh-specific fix for this. ![]() Mon 19th Apr because Nintendo does not want to.There's even support for texture pack mods, if you think you can improve on Nintendo's '90s art.Īnd before y'all come into the comments yelling about DMCA takedowns, the creators of the port are pretty sure that Nintendo won't bother - they're more interested in taking down threats to their sales, after all, and since there aren't any official Mario games on PC, Super Mario 64 isn't a direct threat. ![]() There's also a mode that seems to reduce the game to flat colours, something called "Daredevil Mode", and the ability to edit the draw distance, if you want to replicate Mario's failing vision after 35 years of being the most famous plumber in the world without any health insurance. How many times have you been kicked out of a level just as you were about to get to the goal, all because you accidentally grabbed 10 red coins? Probably not that many, but still! Life changing. But it's not just a permadeath option that SM64+ adds - alongside some quality of life changes, like bug fixes, an improved camera, and 60FPS added via interpolation, there's also the ability to continue in the level after grabbing a star. Super Mario 64 is a classic, but if you've ever wished that Mario would die in the game for real, your wishes are about to come true.Ī fan-made PC Port called Super Mario 64 Plus came out earlier this month, and has since hit 30,000 downloads, showing that there's a huge market for killing Mario once and for all. ![]() The sensing circuit develops a larger voltage that turns on a light or sounds the buzzer in the Volt Stick. The sensor tip is a small capacitor coupled to the live voltage. Your hand, body and feet form a relatively large capacitor coupled to the floor. So when you hold the Volt Stick in your hand and place the tip near a live conductor, you are inserting the high impedance sensing element into a capacitively coupled series circuit. The person holding the tester is the first 'plate' of the large capacitor, the ground is the second plate and the person's shoes or carpet is the dielectric between them. The live metallic component (such as a live wire) is the first plate of the smaller capacitor and the other plate is the sensor in the tip of the Volt Stick, the air between them is the Dielectric. This is the basis for understanding how Volt Sticks work. If we have two capacitors in series then a larger voltage will develop across the smaller capacitor. If an AC Voltage is connected across the two conductors, an AC Current will flow across the Dielectric as the electrons are alternately attracted or repelled by the voltage on the opposite plate this makes a complete AC Circuit, even though there is not a complete ‘hard wired’ circuit. To understand this we can turn to electrical circuit theory and look at how a Capacitor behaves.Ī Capacitor has two conductors that are separated by a non-conductor or Dielectric. The voltage, or more correctly the Electric Field, produced by the voltage is detected using the principal of Capacitive Coupling. without any metallic contact) that is without the need for a test probe to touch the wire or surface that is being tested. Volt Sticks detect voltage by a non-contact means (i.e. Volt Sticks may seem very simple and straight forward but many people dismiss them as unreliable because they don’t fully understand how they work. They are very easy to use but, as with any tool, it is important to read the operating instructions and to fully understand the principles behind them so that you know exactly when and where they will (and won’t!) work. Volt Sticks are designed for one very specific purpose - to detect the presence of an AC voltage. Non Contact Voltage Testers go by many names but Volt Stick is the original Non Contact Voltage Tester and the only one to carry the Volt Stick logo. Berkman is an entrepreneur and investor in the communications, media, technology and energy … Continue readingīIRLEY, Robin: (M) Nightclub impresario. Bill Berkman, Names found in Epstein’s black book. Born in Paris, France, he is a dual American and German citizen Authored Books: Renovating … Continue readingīERKMAN, Bill: (M) Co-Chairman and CEO of Radius Global Infrastructure. ![]() a billionaire investor and philanthropist. Nicolas Berggruen, Name found in Epstein’s black book. 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