![]() ![]() I wanted a free 30-day trial (like most recipe software programs have). While I liked Cook’n and was intrigued by its simple functionality, I wasn’t about to pay $60-$80 on the spot - despite the 200% guarantee. My gut told me, this was going to be my recipe program of choice (see below), but I wanted to make sure, so I kept researching. I have to say… Big Oven is way modern, trendy, and fun. One of the first “new to me” recipe programs that I explored was Big Oven. And… in the best of all worlds, an iPhone app which would enable me to glance at my recipes when I’m out & about and possibly prepare shopping lists based on the ingredients needed. An online version similar to the way Google Docs and Evernote sync your data would be nice. Worth noting… One of the features I’m looking for is a way to sync recipes on my 2 computers, or at least a way to access my own recipes on multiple computers. ![]() So, here’s how the process of deciding on a recipe software program went for me… Comparing The 6 Most Popular Recipe Software Programs Fortunately, most recipe programs import Mastercook recipes without any problems. In the end, I opted to move on and end my relationship with Mastercook. Personally, I quickly became frustrated when I couldn’t find one good online page to go to for all my Mastercook questions. Plus, Mastercook was recently sold to another company ( Mastercook is now owned by ValueSoft, rather than Sierra) which appears to have opened up a few more holes - in terms of support. There are lots of open-ended questions floating around out there the bulk of the questions are answered by fellow users of Mastercook, rather than a knowledegable support team behind the Mastercook recipe software. Somehow, it’s managed to survive and remain a popular recipe program, but it doesn’t seem well supported. But they sure don’t make it easy to find out.Īt the same time, I wasn’t all that comfortable with Mastercook’s progress through the years. So I honestly have no idea what the newest version of Mastercook is like. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mind Charge – (Next magical attack deals 2.5x more damage).Spell Master – (Halves all SP costs) – Odin.Thunder Reign – (Severe Elec damage to one foe, 100% shock chance) – Odin.Endure – Skill card from the Hell Biker persona.Cool Breeze – Skill card from the Ose persona.Invigorate 3 – Trade 7 x Amethysts at the Antique Shop.Mediarahan – Skill card from the Yurlunger persona.Amrita – Skill card from the Scathach persona.Alternatively, the Kohryu persona learns both Mediarahan and Invigorate 3, which means it can also be used as a great starting point for your healing persona. To make things a little easier, the Scathach persona learns both Amrita and Invigorate 3, which makes it a great persona to start using when forming your healer. Endure is a great value skill too, because the last thing you want is your protagonist biting the dust, especially when they’re your current healer. That said, this build will grant you a powerful healing protagonist that will likely last a great deal longer than any regular party member. Technically these can both be trumped by things like Victory Cry and Spell Master, but you’re unlikely to access these without significant post game grinding. ![]() This build is designed to counter both, by including a full heal in the form of Mediarahan and SP restoration through both Invigorate 3 and Cool Breeze. Yukiko and Ken can make for good healers, but there are very powerful skills that they miss out on, a great deal of which can make your life a lot easier.ĭuring late game Tartarus jaunts, and indeed the bosses that inhabit it, you’ll likely find yourself struggling for both healing throughput and SP. We’ve written excessively about the power of party members in Persona 3, but it’s worth reiterating that the power of your protagonist will overtake them rather easily, especially in the late game. Endure – (Survive lethal attack with 1 HP once per battle).Cool Breeze – (Restore 8% HP and SP after battle).Invigorate 3 – (7 SP restored every round).Mediarahan – (Full HP restored to all allies).Amrita – (Cures all ailments for all allies). ![]() ![]() ![]() Germain des Pres station, we write our route as follows:ġ. Once you're in the metro station, follow the signs to your train based on the name of the last stop.įor example, if we're heading to a hotel at the St. ![]() When writing down your route, note the name of your stop and the name of the last stop on that line. Using a Paris Metro map, plot the route to your hotel. If your destination is located at another stop, you'll need to transfer from the RER B train at one of the stops above to the Paris metro. If your hotel is closest to one of these stops, you don't have to deal with the metro - depart the train station and walk to your hotel. The RER B stops at Gare du Nord, Châtelet-Les Halles, Saint Michel - Notre Dame, Luxembourg, Port Royal and Denfort Rochereau. ![]() You can't get lost on the train from CDG - all RER trains head into central Paris. Plan ahead by noting the stop closest to your hotel - the name of the stop and the metro line are usually prominently displayed on the hotel's web site. Plan Your Route Beforehand - After a day of flight and the effects of jet-leg, the last thing you are going to want to do is study a metro map to determine how to get to your hotel on the Paris Metro. While you are buying your RER ticket, you can also pick up a "carnet" or set of ten metro tickets for your stay in Paris.ģ. Save yourself the frustration of fighting with the machines and buy a ticket at the counter. However, many do not accept US credit cards. Buy Your Tickets at the Counter - There are numerous automated machines to buy tickets in the train station. Walk down the hall and follow the signs for the "RER" to access the train station.Ģ. ![]() If you're flying Air France, Continental, American Airlines, or Delta, you exit the plane into Terminal 2. The trip from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 takes about 8 minutes. Exit the CDG VAL at Terminal 2 - the signs in the for the right exit are clearly marked "Paris - by Train" in English. The CDG VAL is a free metro-like train that circles the Airport. After you clear customs, find the elevators (follow the crowds) and follow the blue CDG VAL Airport Shuttle signs to the entrance (on Level 2 between check in gates 5 and 6). From Terminal 1, you'll need to take a the CDG VAL Airport Shuttle train to Terminal 2 and the RER station. If you're flying United, US Airways, Air Canada, KLM, Lufthansa, or Northwest, you exit the plane into Terminal 1. All flights originating in the US, disembark at CDG in Terminal 1 or Terminal 2. Know your Arrival Terminal to Determine How to Access the RER station. A sudden transformation that stuns your senses, and that you don't experience by gradually entering the city by a cab or bus.ġ. The "Wow" factor - Sounds corny, but there is something magical about traveling for 1/2 hour in a dark tunnel, then exiting from the underground metro into the beauty and bustle of a Paris morning. There is a reason why the locals love the train.Ģ. At 30 minutes and 8.10€ a trip, unless you have a special circumstance (like too much luggage), the train should be your first choice. Quickest/Cheapest Way into the City - The train bypasses all traffic and runs on a set and very predictable schedule. Be prepared to carry your luggage up and down multiple staircases and through winding metro stations.ġ. Unlike the US, many train stations in Paris are not handicapped accessible. Not convinced that a train is your best option? Learn about:ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Intel Suit: Periodic sonar waves reveal where enemies are around you.Digital Ghillie Suit: Turn invisible when not shooting your weapon.Low Profile: Your character does not appear on the enemy’s minimap.Echelon: Origin - Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. ![]() ![]() Lockout: Deploy an EMP that prevents enemies from using their Abilities and Ultras in the radius of the Lockout.Spiderbot: Deploy a Spiderbot that will target and stun the nearest enemy.Hijack: Hack enemy-deployed abilities and make them yours.Fabricator: After a device is deployed, your Fabricator prints a new one.Bring out a flamethrower that incinerates enemies.Firebomb: Throw a Molotov cocktail causing explosive damage and lighting the area with fire.Incinerator Drone: Napalm-Delivering drone burns everything in its flightpath.Incendiary Rounds: Weapons inflict extra burn damage over time but decreases the weapon range.Cleaners: Origin - Tom Clancy’s The Division.There were five Factions available in this closed beta and I detailed their abilities and class-specific traits below: They were merely inspirations.Įach Faction is really just like selecting a class with different Abilities and Ultras (ultimates). In speaking with Safy Saada, Creative Director, I was told that there’s no underlying story or reasoning for these characters being in XDefiant. There’s no story or narrative on why these agents from each Faction are in XDefiant. But loading into XDefiant now, there’s more structure to it. There was no real guidance on how to play the game or who the characters were. I couldn’t figure out what the game was trying to do or how the game was supposed to feel. In my opinion, XDefiant really didn’t have a sense of identity when the first closed test opened. ![]() ![]() ![]() As such, they do not need to be terminated with a semi-colon). (In passing, any command starting with a full-stop are "internal" commands to the SQLite shell, and are not SQL statements. This will return you to the command-prompt. To get out, type and press ENTER (you'll get an error message of some kind: ignore it) then type. > prompt), so you are being prompted to enter the rest of the command, together with the terminating semi-colon. These commands can span multiple lines (hence the. any SQL statements given to the SQLite shell needs to be terminated with a semi-colon. Having said that, your problem is confusing a CMD command-line with an SQLite command-line (I've not looked at the tutorial, so I don't know if it's their fault for not making it clear enough :-)) any difficulties with the tutorial are probably best addressed to that site. Sorry, I am doing everything in DOS CMD and think I am doing it right, but in case you have not noticed, I am not a guru :-)įirst, to the best of my knowledge, that tutorial site has no official connection to "core" SQLite and this forum. Instruction: try a simple command like seeing the tablesĮrror: unable to open database "c:dbchinook.db": unable to open database file It says I should see a folder called sqlite> which I do Instruction: use the following command to connect to the chinook sample database located in the db folder, which is a subfolder of the sqlite folder. I am not quitting, and moving on to the next instructions to download and unzip the demo file called chinook.db Instruction: it tells you to quit and to download a GUI. Result is: a list of help commands / information similar to example help command from the sqlite> prompt to see all available commands in sqlite3. Use ".open FILENAME" to reopen on a persistent database. Result is (and it compares to the example):Ĭonnected to a transient in-memory database. ![]() Instruction is: type sqlite3 and press enter, you should see the following output Instruction is: type sqlite3 and press enter Instruction is: navigate to the C:sqlite folde ![]() ![]() ![]() Continuing with the previous example, you could select a different drive for Documents, say E. Windows 10 allows you to pick different partitions for different categories. It's too bad that you can't pick a custom folder for the saved data, but this option should be fine for most users. selecting D: as the new location for pictures on my computer created the folder in D:\Ashwin\Pictures. It will be created in the following format: "Username\Content Type\". Note: Windows will still create its Documents folder for each of the selected drives. You may have to re-open existing applications for the change to be reflected though. Once you have done this, Windows 10 will save the data to the selected partition. You will see a progress cursor, wait for a few seconds and it should be done. You will have to repeat this for each of the 6 options if you want to change the save location for each of the data types. If you want to change the save location of Apps, simply click the button next to the icon and select a different drive. To change the default save location click on the menu next to a data type and pick one of the available locations from the menu that opens Windows 10 lists all partitions that are available on the computer. You are taken to a new screen which displays the default save locations for six different types of data: Apps, Documents, Music, Photos and Videos, Movies and TV Shows, and Maps.Įach of these options is set to "This PC" by default. Click on the text that reads "Change where new content is saved".Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where it says "More Storage Settings".Click on System and then on "Storage" from the side-bar on the left.How to change the default save location in Windows 10 This is a big deal, because it not only takes up precious disk space, but it also becomes a chore to move the data manually from time to time. It gets accumulated with media, documents, etc, fairly quickly. For example, I have a 120GB SSD in my computer and Windows 10 is installed on it along with a few programs. ![]() Why would do you want to do this? Storage space can be an issue for some users. Previously, you had only a couple of options, e.g. Microsoft implemented functionality in the Settings application of the Windows 10 operating system that allows users to change save locations in a simple and straightforward manner. Tip: check out other parts of the series such as Windows Shutdown Autostart Explained, our Registry backup primer, our this part of the network troubleshooting series. to store files on another partition or hard drive that has more space. While that is the desired location for many users, some may prefer different locations, e.g. The operating system saves all documents, pictures, music etc to the drive Windows is installed on by default: this has always been the case in prior versions of the OS as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is in contrast to physical sunscreens, also called mineral sunscreens, such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. The active sunscreen ingredients in Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen include avobenzone, homosalate, octisalate, and octocrylene.Īll four of these ingredients are classified as chemical sunscreens, which protect the skin by first absorbing UV light, then transforming that light energy into some other form of energy, such as heat. In order to determine how well Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen performs, we’ll have to evaluate the key ingredients in this formula. Related: Best Sunscreens for face What Are The Key Ingredients in Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40? Skin type? Recommended for all skin types.Key ingredients? Chemical sunscreens (avobenzone, homosalate, octisalate, and octocrylene).Is Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40 Right For You?īefore we get into the details, here’s the TL DR if you just want to know whether or not Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40 is right for you. One brand is Carrot & Stick, a clean skincare brand that perfectly balances the gentle nurturing of plants with the powerful results of innovative science.Ĭarrot & Stick intro bundles deliver great value for money because you can bundle 3 full-size products worth up to $240 for $88. In our opinion, Supergoop products are worth the money, but there are other brands that deliver greater value. Is Supergoop Skincare Worth The Money?Ī common question about this brand is if the products are worth the cost. We’ll also share some Supergoop reviews so that you can get an idea of what customers really think of this sunscreen. The brand’s most buzzed-about product is the Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen, a weightless, scentless, totally invisible sunscreen that provides broad spectrum SPF 40 protection.īut is Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen really worth the hype? To answer that question, we’ll have to evaluate the key ingredients in this formula, as well as the research that supports (or doesn’t support) their use in skin care. ![]() Supergoop specializes in formulating sun care products for your face, body, and lips that not only provide broad spectrum protection, but also look and feel good while you’re wearing them. One brand that understands these frustrations is Supergoop. What are the Best Skin Care Products of 2023? And don’t even get us started on the sunscreens that leave you looking like a ghost due to the white cast! ![]() Some sunscreens may clog your pores and cause breakouts, while others leave a greasy mess on your face. Wearing sunscreen not only helps to slow the skin aging process, it’s also one step you can take toward reducing your risk for skin cancer.īut we understand that finding a good sunscreen can be a challenge. That’s because excessive sunlight exposure is the single biggest culprit in aging skin. You could be using the best anti-aging serums and moisturizers on the market, but if you aren’t wearing sunscreen daily, you may be wasting your time (and money). ![]() ![]() We would say the Rectangle Mac is a multitasker’s greatest buddy. It is similar to Magnet, but Rectangle has a few more capabilities and is, most importantly, fair and transparent. The Rectangle Mac is a risk-free program that helps you organize your windows. Give your productivity a boost with the powerful features of the Rectangle Pro. Whether you need to arrange multiple windows side-by-side or want to maximize your screen real estate, the Rectangle app provides intuitive and customizable controls to meet your needs. With the Rectangle app, users can easily resize and position windows on their desktops, creating a more efficient and organized workflow. Rectangle Mac app is a window manager designed to enhance productivity on the macOS platform. We'll update this post over the hours ahead with new updates as they come.Rectangle Mac App Best window management tool for macOS After the initial launch rush subsides, installing the game outside of peak hours could eliminate several variables hindering downloads today. The sheer number of new users looking to download game content is guaranteed to impact speeds in some areas, even despite Microsoft's best efforts. While you may be eager to jump onto Microsoft Flight Simulator the moment it launches in your region, remember you're not alone. While resetting your download progress to 0%, a clean install of the title may correct any undetected hiccups impacting your original installation. Yes, it's not ideal - but reinstalling the Microsoft Flight Simulator client could fix underlying download issues. A workaround remains unclear at this point in time. The title may open to a later 3.68GB update, which fails to download once started. Many users report no issues when installing the majority of Microsoft Flight Simulator, but later encounter hurdles when restarting the title. Temporarily turn off any potentially interfering processes one-by-one, and see if your experience improves when a particular feature isn't in play. ![]() Your antivirus, firewall, or user account limitations may restrict the download process. While it's best practice to keep your PC running healthy, various Windows security features may hold your Flight Simulator experience back. If you have a secondary hard drive, attempt to change the installation repository, Alternatively, create a new folder on your existing hard drive, and attempt a fresh installation in that location. Microsoft Flight Simulator's Content Manager also features the ability to choose where you install your game content.
![]() ![]() They achieved this by fine-tuning an ImageNet CNN to predict a much wider set of visual concepts (visual n-grams) from the text of titles, descriptions, and tags of 30 million Flickr photos and were able to reach 11.5% accuracy on ImageNet zero-shot.įinally, CLIP is part of a group of papers revisiting learning visual representations from natural language supervision in the past year. Most inspirational for CLIP is the work of Ang Li and his co-authors at FAIR who in 2016 demonstrated using natural language supervision to enable zero-shot transfer to several existing computer vision classification datasets, such as the canonical ImageNet dataset. The same year DeVISE scaled this approach and demonstrated that it was possible to fine-tune an ImageNet model so that it could generalize to correctly predicting objects outside the original 1000 training set. In 2013, Richer Socher and co-authors at Stanford developed a proof of concept by training a model on CIFAR-10 to make predictions in a word vector embedding space and showed this model could predict two unseen classes. A critical insight was to leverage natural language as a flexible prediction space to enable generalization and transfer. ![]() The idea of zero-data learning dates back over a decade but until recently was mostly studied in computer vision as a way of generalizing to unseen object categories. This is a key change: by not directly optimizing for the benchmark, we show that it becomes much more representative: our system closes this “robustness gap” by up to 75% while matching the performance of the original ResNet-50 on ImageNet zero-shot without using any of the original 1.28M labeled examples.ĬLIP ( Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training) builds on a large body of work on zero-shot transfer, natural language supervision, and multimodal learning. ![]() By design, the network can be instructed in natural language to perform a great variety of classification benchmarks, without directly optimizing for the benchmark’s performance, similar to the “ zero-shot” capabilities of GPT-2 and GPT-3. We present a neural network that aims to address these problems: it is trained on a wide variety of images with a wide variety of natural language supervision that’s abundantly available on the internet. ![]() Although deep learning has revolutionized computer vision, current approaches have several major problems: typical vision datasets are labor intensive and costly to create while teaching only a narrow set of visual concepts standard vision models are good at one task and one task only, and require significant effort to adapt to a new task and models that perform well on benchmarks have disappointingly poor performance on stress tests, casting doubt on the entire deep learning approach to computer vision. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only one thing is certain in Nidhogg… the only way to win is to outwit your opponent. Until you reach your goal-zone, anything is possible. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows. Matches aren’t won or lost with a single kill, but with a series of kills granting you right-of-way to run/fight/flee to your own goal-zone.Įach arena holds different strategic formations and chokepoints to use to your advantage. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. The combat arena stretches in both directions, although besting an opponent only gains you ground. If swordless, press forward with punches, sweep kicks, dive kicks, rolls, and wall jumps. Use a variety of fencing maneuvers while armed - lunges, parries, and even dirty tricks like throwing your sword. IRL yelling and excitement may occur, in this ultimate two-player showdown of fast-paced fencing and melee attacks.īeware, advantages in Nidhogg are often fleeting, as new opponents continually spawn in your way. The second game having a different presentation means the series is split 50/50 between simple and more detailed graphics, so it's not like it's changing a long-running franchise. There is local multiplayer without controllers. The first game's visual style was used because it was a lot easier to animate. ![]() Well it probably has a lot to do with the fact I dont generally use a controller for gaming. Nidhogg 2 apparently saw all the raving reviews of their first game, and. Sometimes they got creative with the backgrounds, but the swords were like 9 pixels in total. It was pixel art, but not like Terraria pixel art-more like Atari pixel art. Everything else is on or off, which keyboads and controllers can do equally well. GRAPHICS: Nidhogg 1 had bare bones graphics. The only time precision really matters is when it comes to analog control or mouse movement. Updated Controls, Cart-Wheels, En Garde Stance, and Parrying Thrown Sabres. I prefer a controller, but you can play with your keyboard (theres no reason to use the mouse other than menu navigation) 3. Pressing a keyboard button or a controller button has the same precision. Beware, advantages in Nidhogg are often fleeting, as new opponents continually spawn in your way. IRL yelling and excitement may occur, in this ultimate two-player showdown of fast-paced fencing and melee attacks. Added Instantly Throwing your Sabres, Wall-Clinging, and Getting Up. Nidhogg Nidhogg is the epic award-winning fencing tug-of-war, full of graceful acrobatics and clumsy stabs. A basic story mode is available but it is severely limited.Nidhogg is the epic award-winning fencing tug-of-war, full of graceful acrobatics and clumsy stabs. Replaced all instances of Thrust and Block with Lunge and Parry, to more closely reflect the fencing aspect of Nidhogg. Nidhogg is a great two player one keyboard game. The online multiplayer is effectively dead making local play the only real option. Looking for games that can be played with 2 players sharing one keyboard, like super smash flash. Extra moves like throwing swords, ducking, jumping and physical punches make up enough variety to keep Nidhogg fresh for a while but the lack of extra modes limit its lifespan. Attacks can be blocked and reversed, making calm and rational play the best way to win over a rash opponent. The combat on offer is based around blocking and outmanoeuvring your opponent. Two stock colour fighters use stick-like swords to fence their way to victory, taking ground and moving towards their goal in a tug of war where a death is just a setback. Take to the arena and battle for your place in Nidhogg, a game which at first glance looks like a 1980's classic. ![]() Two stick figures battle with swords and fists across multiple sections requiring thought and daring. Nidhogg is an indie action game where two players engage in a fencing tug of war to earn a place in the Nordic afterlife. ![]() |
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