![]() ![]() Starting from the bottom, you take over the city, from small businesses to huge corporations. Perhaps most important is that we deliver.Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. ![]() You'll find us on the forums nearly every single day of the week. We listen, we care, and we work extremely hard to promptly incorporate feedback. Countless suggestions have been implemented, sometimes the very same day they're suggested. We have a proven track record of delivering and we've deployed hundreds of public builds since entering Early Access. Optionally allows restrictions to be set per queue to allow/restrict certain types of people from using the queue (First Class, Coach, and Flight Crew) which you can leverage to create expedited queues for operational efficiency purposes.Įxtremely Active Dev Team with a Proven Track Record Supports numerous configurations include 'one-to-many' desks, to assign a single queue to multiple service stations. #Simairport beta server full#Keep pax informed and they'll have a greater sense of urgency as their departure time nears and they're be far less likely to needlessly wander from their gate.Įxtremely powerful queue system provides you with full control. Info displays, kiosks, and public address speaker systems complete with Electronics zones to house the required amplifiers. Bag handling systems can be quite complicated and you definitely don't want to become a case study like KDEN has! Take it slow and plan ahead - building a highly efficient baggage handling operation is no easy task and requires careful planning! Losing bags is a sure way to upset an individual pax, but it also starts causing issues with the airline when occurring often. Leverage the Fuel Marketplace as much as you can, too - with enough capacity you may be able to cash in on any arbitrage opportunities that present themselves which can provide a welcome capital infusion.ĭeeply Simulated Baggage Handling SystemsĬonveyor to carousel, every single bag is tracked - watch as each piece of luggage makes its journey. 15 Airlines with realistic high-quality textures.ġ5+ research items to obtain improved transit, reporting, expansion, and other capabilitiesįuel can be a profitable saving grace or you may even decide to sell at-or-below cost as a loss-leader tactic in your effort to gain favor with airlines. When operations run smoothly & pax are all happily catching their flights you can be pretty sure that the airlines are probably satisfied, too! If you keep the airlines happy you can probably raise prices without creating too much fuss - and that leads to bigger profits!Ĭareer Mode & Sandbox Mode (unlimited funds)ġ6+ Aircraft, turboprop to turbine. Ensuring passengers catch their flight is another. Getting flights out on-time is only part of the battle. It seems simple, placing restrooms or retail areas for instance - but it's more than meets the eye! Pax may become distracted when seating or interesting services require a long walk or are far from their gate! Carefully consider the details to truly maximize your efficiency and reap the profits. Moving walkways, multi-story structures, additional terminals, one-way taxiways, staggered schedules, and careful standby gate allocation - these are but a sampling of the concepts you'll leverage on your way to truly mastering the art of large-scale airport operations. Large & complex airports require extremely smart designs. Avoiding bottlenecks for 10k+ pax will likely require different tactics! Aim for profitability by scaling up, but remember: more passengers, more problems! Getting 2,000 pax out is easy. The starter airport helps get aircraft landing & cash flowing almost immediately. ![]() Simple & familiar controls for a smooth takeoff Deeply simulated gameplay where each detail makes an impact - down to the trash cans. You control everything, from the cruise-altitude decisions to the smallest ground-level details.Ĭhallenge yourself to create an efficient & profitable international hub in Career Mode, or create an artistic masterpiece without credit rating worries in Sandbox Mode.Ĭonstruct your terminal, hire staff, sign airline contracts, tweak the daily flight schedule, configure standby gate availability, plan & design your infrastructure - bag handling systems, roads & taxiways, fuel systems, runways, gates, hangars, service vehicles, and everything in between. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A través de un catálogo taxonómico se extraen conceptos y categorías acerca de la evolución del tratamiento de los espacios digitales, que llevan a elegir Bioshock como ejemplo paradigmático del tratamiento de la ciudad videojugable. La investigación parte de una fase de documentación sobre la historia del videojuego y su relación con espacio y arquitectura. La submarina Rapture y la flotante Columbia son protagonistas y guías de Bioshock, y constituyen una parte indispensable de su esencia espacial y narrativa. En Bioshock, la ciudad abandona su situación natural, ligada a la tierra, para explorar emplazamientos peculiares. Se culmina presentando esas relaciones entre arquitectura y videojuego con un caso en el que la trama gira en torno a dos ciudades de interés arquitectónico. Los diseñadores de entornos buscan inspiración en disciplinas artísticas, como el arquitecto bebe de otras especialidades buscando una idea que estructure y dé sentido al proyecto. Las mejoras tecnológicas permiten reproducir escenarios más complejos, desdibujando el límite entre lo digital y lo físico, promoviendo la presencia del arquitecto en el proceso creativo. The representation of this virtual space has always been constrained by technological affordances as technology advances, the configuration of those spaces has also developed and become more complex.Įl objetivo es explorar los usos y la presencia de espacio y arquitectura en el videojuego, manifestando la importancia del medio y las formas urbanas para la jugabilidad. Videogames take place within a digital environment, and make use of the spatial properties of digital environments to create new types of spaces. Spatiality is one of the fundamental properties of digital environments, as defined by Murray. INTRODUCTION Any game takes place within a space, so that its rules are in force within its boundaries Huizinga called this 'the magic circle'(a phrase recently revived by ). The basic spatial configurations are defined by a few basic features (cardinality of gameplay, cardinality of gameworld and representation) which combined can account for most videogame spaces. This paper deals with the basic spatial configurations in videogames from early games until today, focusing on how they position the player with respect to the playfield, and how they affect gameplay. ![]() ![]() Most of the time, you need to fallback to a headless browser and good proxy/user agent management.ĭataDome, PerimeterX, and others have also proven themselves to be challenging to bypass in 2021. Whilst the vanilla Cloudflare anti-bot can still be bypassed relatively easily, when a website is using the advanced version it can be quite challenging to deal with. Not necessarily because it is the best anti-bot, but because it is the most widely used. Of all the anti-bot solutions out there, Cloudflare probably was the most widespread pain in the a** for web scrapers. However, whilst scraping a website might be still possible, anti-bots can make it not worth the effort and cost if you have to resort to ever more expensive web scraping setups (using headless browsers with residential/mobile IP networks, etc). With the right combination of proxies, user agents and browsers, you can scrape every website. They are increasingly moving away from simple header and IP fingerprinting, to more complicated browser and TCP fingerprinting with webRTC, canvas fingerprinting and analysing mouse movements so that they can differentiate automated scrapers from real-users.īut as of yet no anti-bot has found the magic bullet to completely prevent web scrapers. Websites and anti-bot providers have continued to develop more sophisticated anti-bot measures. The endless war between web scrapers and websites trying to block them continued unabated in 2021, with web scrapers still largely staying one step ahead. ![]() Not only are the optics better, but the profit margins are significantly higher too! 2022 Outlook Įxpect to see more existing web scraping players and new entrants focus on becoming data feed providers, instead of being web-scraping-as-a-service or proxy providers. Or maybe, just people and companies don't want web data as much anymore, who knows. In 2021, two of the largest players in web scraping, Luminati and Scrapinghub, rebranded to "Bright Data" and "Zyte" respectively, highlighting the shift away from web scraping to a more data focus. The term "web scraping" is falling out of fashion in favour of terms like "data feeds" and "data extraction". ![]() so companies aren't building their own in-house web scraping infrastructures. More companies offering ready made product monitoring tools for e-commerce, etc.Growing number of companies offering industry specific data feeds (product info, SERP results, etc.) so people don't have to scrape the data themselves.It's hard to know for sure, but it is likely a combination of: ![]() Google searches for the term "web scraping" have dropped 30-40% compared to 2020 volumes. Fighting Dirty: Increased Use of Pressure TacticsĪfter consistent growth in interest every year over the last 10 years, 2021 seems to have been a year when "web scraping" became uncool.Legal Issues: Maybe A Little Less Grey?.Including the good, the bad, and the ugly: With 2021 having come to an end, now is the time to look back at the big events & trends in the world of web scraping, and try to project what will 2022 look like for web scraping. ![]() ![]() “There will also be a pending comment queue comments in the pending queue are visible to readers, but only if they choose to see them. “Only comments from approved commenters - those who are followed by Jezebel - will automatically be visible,” Coen wrote. It's a return to a system Jezebel used before a company-wide redesign.Īlso read: Gawker Media Changes Policies in Wake of Jezebel's Scathing Open Letter Jezebel editor-in-chief Jessica Coen wrote that the company has reintroduced a pending comment system, wherein comments by top-tier commenters will be easily visible, but those by others will not be. On Tuesday, Gawker introduced a temporary fix by disabling image uploads in the comments below posts. The women of Jezebel are scheduled to start the conversation at Barnes and Noble at the Grove on Wednesday at 7 p.m.Two days after Gawker Media employees called out their management for failing to stop rape images from appearing on the company's Jezebel site, Gawker has addressed the issue. (Excerpted from “The Book of Jezebel,” copyright 2013 by Gawker Media LLC, reprinted by permission of Grand Central Publishing, all rights reserved.) The character of Jo is generally accepted to be a reflection of Alcott herself or, at the very least, a reflection of the woman Alcott yearned to be, and a representation of the evolving standard of girlhood in the late 1800s. Second eldest of the four sisters whose lives are chronicled in Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1868 novel “Little Women.” Strong-willed, tomboyish, and creative and perhaps the most beloved of the sisters, aspiring writer Jo is outspoken against injustice and refuses to bend to the norms of the time, even rejecting the marriage proposal of the family’s handsome and wealthy neighbor Laurie in favor of the poor but kind professor Friedrich Bhaer. (It’s hard for any single woman to travel abroad nowadays without a disclaimer that her journey has nothing to do with spiritual self-discovery or the pursuit of a book deal.) Portrayed on-screen by Julia Roberts in the film version of her hugely popular 2006 memoir “Eat, Pray, Love.” Alternately hailed as an inspiring writer and the worst kind of first-world whiner, Gilbert has inspired numerous pilgrimages, with varying results. Bestselling eater, prayer, lover, and author of several books. Long regarded as a nunnish recluse with little contact with the outside world until Brenda Wineapple’s 2008 biography offered an alternate view of the New Englander as a flirtatious, active, engaged letter-writer. Nineteenth-century poet and one of the most important voices in American literature. Though he has the face (and body) of a teenage boy, he’s over one hundred years old, digs high school girls, and doesn’t believe in premarital sex. Vampire character from “Twilight” who sparkles in the sunshine and drives a BMW. It’s an illustrated encyclopedia of things that interest, obsess, and are otherwise on the minds of the women behind the site. #JEZEBEL AND GAWKER FULL#Like books from The Onion and “The Daily Show,” “The Book of Jezebel” is a reference volume that’s full of slant. Now it has moved into print, with “The Book of Jezebel.” The book’s editor and website’s founding editor Anna Holmes, who did her time working at glossy, non-feminist magazines before beginning Jezebel, will be at Barnes & Noble at the Grove on Wednesday night with current editor Jessica Coen and contributors Jill Soloway, Ann Friedman and Amanda Hess to talk about the book. Part of the Gawker media blog empire, Jezebel put feminist critiques of our still-very-critique-able culture smack into the center of the mainstream. Often witty, sometimes righteous, and occasionally furious, the blog Jezebel has been a high-profile platform for a new generation of feminists since 2007. ![]() ![]() ![]() One RS forum boasts over 40,000 members and RS clips on some social media platforms have been viewed over 1.7 billion times. RS, described as the experience of being able to transcend one’s physical confines and visit alternate, mostly fictional, universes, is discussed by many on Internet platforms. Reality shifting (RS) is a trendy mental activity that emerged abruptly following the flare-up of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and seems to be practiced mainly by members of the post-millennial generation. Our research generalizes to technologically-mediated simulations of other emotive or internal experiences. Lucid Loop appears to accurately simulate lucid dreaming, with implications for enhancing well-being and future applications for lucid dream training. Participants also noted several differences where technology might be limited. Lucid Loop was like lucid dreaming because of its capacity for emotionality and fluidity between self and environment. We interviewed nine lucid dreamers who tried Lucid Loop and helped us propose design considerations: dreaming allusions, reality checks, focus points with neurofeedback, people in the scene, and immersion. So, we created Lucid Loop-a neurofeedback-augmented immersive experience that utilizes AI-enhanced visuals and spatial audio in a virtual reality device for simulating lucid dreaming. Yet, lucid dreaming is not accessible to most people. It also has benefits for growth and well-being. Lucid dreaming is the awareness of being in a dream, allowing dream control and living out fantasies. Spanish Validation of LuCiD Frontiers in Psychology | 2 October 2021 | Volume 12 | Article 742438 in dreams for a Spanish population, Moreover, the results suggest a relationship with meditation experience, mindfulness trait, and positive and negative affect. ![]() This study provides a valid and reliable measure for exploring lucidity and consciousness García-Campayo et al. Finally, positive and negative affects was associated with the LuCiD factors Positive Emotion and Negative Emotion. The Observing facet of mindfulness was positively associated with all LuCiD factors, except Realism and Positive Emotion, and the Acting with Awareness facet showed a negative correlation with the LuCiD factor Realism. The scores of meditators were higher for the LuCiD scale Insight and Dissociation factors, in contrast to those of non-meditators. The scale showed adequate values of internal consistency (between α = 0.65 for Memory and α = 0.83 for Positive Emotion) and test-retest reliability by significant Pearson correlations (p < 0.001) for each factor. Item 15 was deleted from the Dissociation factor as it performed poorly (i.e., skewness and kurtosis, non-normal distribution of responses, and corrected item-total correlation under 0.40). ![]() Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the original eight-factor model, showing goodness of fit in contrast to a single-factor model. Factor structure, reliability by both internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and construct and concurrent validity were tested. The LuCiD scale comprises 28 items distributed across eight factors: insight, control, thought, realism, memory, dissociation, negative emotion, and positive emotion. A random subsample of 101 participants, who completed LuCiD for a second time after a period of 10-15 days, was used for test-retest reliability analysis. From the total sample, 40.3% indicated some experience with formal meditation (meditators), while 59.7% did not have any meditation experience (non-meditators). Data from 367 Spanish men (34.6%) and women (65.4%) who completed LuCiD, the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) were examined. A secondary aim was to explore whether meditation experience and mindfulness trait were related to LuCiD scores. The primary aim of this research was to validate a Spanish version of the Lucidity and Consciousness in Dreams scale (LuCiD). Lucid dreaming, a specific phenomenon of dream consciousness, refers to the experience being aware that one is dreaming. ![]() ![]() ![]() Operation Naming: Delegation of behavior – where common logic is abstracted out to a new class (hierarchy) then call the operation performXxxĬonvention: Where behavior is delegated then the original class will need a reference to the class instance that is performing the implementation – name this attribute xxxBehavior where the delegated class type is XxxBehavior.Ĭoding Convention: When referencing another object, use the most abstract class type possible, prefer an interface to a class. Interface Naming: if an interface does not have abstracted realizations name the class …able otherwise name it …Behavior That is not to say that this pattern does not also have applicability to Ruby. The strategy pattern is vaguely similar to mixins in Ruby – the distinction typifies why I prefer Ruby to Java: in Ruby you just include BehaviorX and you are done. We delegate behavior to other classes to keep our class simple where that behavior may be of use elsewhere potentially or where the behavior is subject to change or evolution. #Using bouml codeThe less we know about another object the better – code on a need-to-know basis – do you need to know that an object is of a specific class or just that it is capable of something? Would it be sufficient to know that it was within the same superclass and so on up until you reach the Object root class? Additionally, does the class need to know how an operation is implemented – does it need to contain the implementation logic?īehaviors of objects may be suitable candidates for their own class even though the instances of such classes are not objects in our real or imagined world. The subtle: Prefer interfaces to classes, and abstract classes to concrete classes.Classes do not have to be nouns or things, sometimes they can qualities or just plain behavior. The obvious: Abstract out common behavior/code – limit duplication.
![]() ![]() The pressure on my femurs becomes painful in less than an hour. For example, the seat in the Sealution XL is narrower than my hips. Some of the so called big guy boats really don't fit. ![]() The Pinta is one of the few boats that is REALLY made for us big guys. I only have a little to add the Chuck's description, he did a good job conveying the Necky Pinta's feel. If you don't live on the sea and want a lake kayak for both rec exercise as well as long touring this is definitely the PERFECT Kayak. I have also surfed Lake Erie 2-3 foot rollers and though I use the rudder find my Pinta tracks well and does not exhibit weathercock issues. #PINTA DESIGNS PLUS#I can load my 230 plus everything I could want for 4-5 day trip with son, including tent, 15L of water etc. Mine is unique in color dark top hull, sea blue seam and white hull. Mine being a hand laid kevlar built when Necky was Necky not Johnson Marine they truly built a hand crafted machine. It tracks well yet is fast and stable in a uniquely balanced nature. The Pinta design is a modified greenland style double chine. I decided away from shorter skeg kayaks in english style like Valley's though pretty are not as comfortable nor initially stable. I wanted a kayak I could enjoy that recreational paddle wise would track well and keep up with the rest of the crew. ![]() I have Kayaked in sea conditions in England, B.C California, and Maine but now am fortunate enough to live on Lake Ontario in Canada. I have a lot of experience Kayaking though never bought one til now always kayaking on trips away from home. I recently bought a 2nd hand 2003 Kevlar Necky Pinta. ![]() ![]() ![]() The music and sound effects are awesome and the voice acting ranges from good to average. After returning the part to the mechanic I spoke with him again and it tried to reset that same mission only none of the objectives reset so I couldn’t redo the mission and had that delivery on my mission list until the end of the game – very annoying. I also discovered a glitched mission – the one with the racer I mentioned earlier. This totally ruins the momentum of the game since most missions having you traveling across multiple sectors. Every time you enter a transport tube to a new sector there is a black loading screen with a bar that shoots to 20% then sits there for 40+ seconds before jumping to 90% for another 10-20 seconds before loading. There is a lot of stuttering in the game, especially when driving that seems triggered by any voice communication, almost as if the game can’t load the graphics and the sound simultaneously, and finally the load times. #CLOUDPUNK MISSIONS PS4#The PS4 version has a very limited draw distance with a thick fog that obscures most of the horizon, plus the bustling Fifth Element traffic of the PC is now reduced to 3-5 cars making the freeway tubes look abandoned. ![]() Having played the game on a powerful PC I know how good Cloudpunk can look, and if you have the option of PC versus console I encourage you to go with PC. #CLOUDPUNK MISSIONS PRO#This detail does come at a cost though and that is where the PS4 (even the Pro version) stumbles during the presentation. By default exploring the world on foot is played from a distant external view that makes moving around a bit clumsy but now you can switch to an over-the-shoulder camera or even a first-person view that makes the game infinitely more fun to play and lets you appreciate the unique art style used to create this game.Ĭloudpunk is a 3D pixel art game and when viewed up close you can really see how the entire world and its inhabitants are created from tiny cubes yet retain impressive amounts of detail. You’ll spend almost as much time walking around as you will flying, and the PS4 version of Cloudpunk thankfully has all the latest updates that the PC has been receiving these past few month. Your interactions with many of these characters can often lead to side missions and the discovery of hidden locations and additional story content. You can choose to either return the part or sell it and keep the cash.Įven though the game takes place over the course of a single night you will meet a lot of people, all fully voice acted with unique portraits in the com window. In one early mission you deliver a car part to a street racer and are told to return the defective part to the garage as partial payment for the new part. The game even allows for a bit of story branching when it presents you with choices in the form of delivery destinations. Hackers, a rogue AI and even a big corporate conspiracy will come into play as you work the nightshift in the massive metropolis, Nivalis. There is a pretty interesting story cooking behind the scenes that slowly gets revealed as you progress through the main delivery missions. ![]() ![]() There are also numerous collectibles scattered about the world waiting to be found. The core loop of the game is completing the various delivery tasks given to you by your boss via the video coms on your dashboard, but there is still plenty of time to visit and decorate your apartment, grab a cup of coffee, check out a nightclub, grab some sushi, or purchase some illicit drugs. Perhaps the biggest feature of Cloudpunk is the city itself, sprawling into numerous sectors and spanning more than a thousand vertical miles, which means plenty of real estate for you to explore both on foot and while driving around. Things start off simple enough as you pick-up a few packages and deliver them to their destination, but the more deliveries you make and the more people you meet the more your world is about to get turned upside down. Set in a sprawling futuristic cityscape, Cloudpunk has you playing as Rania, a woman with a mysterious past who is just starting her first shift driving for Cloudpunk, a no-questions-asked delivery service. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coowon browser based on Google Chrome is very safe to use. If you like to play online games, then this browser is made for you. Now, to push into the smartphone and tablet sector in a big way, Maxthon will also sync browser data for supported mobile devices. There is a highly polished manager, which uploads downloads to the cloud storage area to keep data secure. Maxthon has the most three features, it has an extension sidebar, which gives the user quick access to installed add-ons. Chinese-made web-browsers have changed a lot in recent years. The most worn name on the list is that of Maxthon. So in the list below, we will read about them. ![]() They can potentially make your life a lot easier. Here we have covered similar Alternative web browsers for Windows, which you may not know about. In reality, there are many other alternative browsers for windows, which are available in the market with lots of unique features. Browsers like coowon windows#Today’s Windows OS users only know Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc. ![]() But do you know that to use it correctly, using the right browser is one of the most important components for using the right Internet? We use the Internet all the time through our web browser. In today’s time, the World Wide Web has become such an important part of our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dave manages a large team of staff who also liaise with me and as such I am often cc’d into many emails simply so I am informed. His emails vary from those that can be actioned within a minute (simple requests) or more complicated projects and issues that may require a week or more of work. There are dozens of ways to make email prioritisation more effective but we will discuss a few of them by using a brief hypothetical example.Ĭontact: “ Dave – Telstra – IT Support” Dave sends me more than a dozen emails a week and sometimes quite a few per day. This is why it is vital to master the ability to prioritise. With that in mind, it is important to consider how much time you spend actioning emails each day as it can detract from delivering and as the old business adage goes “time is money!”. While most people will attempt to prioritise and action emails relatively quickly many people can’t or don’t. #Outlook filter unreplied emails softwareFor example checking and actioning your email three times a day (Morning, Lunch and Afternoon) can help boost productivity by preventing distraction.Ģ) Establish email filters that automatically sort and categorise your received mail by the level of priority to prevent wasting time individually organising and sorting your new emails.ģ) Restrict your email software from notifying you with audio tracks or visual prompts to further reduce the chance of being distracted from your working rhythm.Ĥ) Create an automatic reply which informs people when you will be actively checking and actioning your emails. Constantly checking email can disrupt your train of thought or ‘work-flow’ thus impacting deliverables, while not checking or actioning your email can delay deliverables and cause communication issues.īelow are four excellent ways to ensure that you are controlling your email and not the other way around:ġ) Restrict when and how many times you check your email during the course of a day. While not everyone falls into one of these two management styles both are equally damaging to productivity and workplace efficiency. ![]() While others will wait until their inbox piles up with a sufficient number of unanswered emails that it motivates them to action them all by close of business or end of the week. Some people will obsessively check their email to action, archive, prioritise and reply to any new email they receive. To help people with this admittedly difficult task we have included in this article some tips for managing your email more effectively. With that being said it is a thin line between obsessively controlling your email and being controlled by your email. The process of managing your emails is a repetitive task that almost all workers must undertake to carry out their duties effectively. This is because while email is one of the most vital tools for any business owner or employee due to its ability to facilitate immediate communication, this immediacy is often also highly distracting and obstructing for deliverables. #Outlook filter unreplied emails driversNot only is email one of the largest drivers of productivity but it is also one of its most frequent obstacles. Email is one of the great contradictions of the modern workplace. ![]() |
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