![]() Perhaps more graphic, although non-sexual acts of violence could portray this.Īccording to an introduction to the trailer by Samuel L Jackson, Kite was filmed in Germany. ![]() If it is solely about drug abuse, then there absolutely needs to be changes to allow the story to have the same devastating, shocking, emotional impact. Perhaps sexual abuse could still be part of the story, we just may not see it. What about the rape scenes? From a very short scene with Samuel L Jackson’s character and the youthful Sawa, it appears to be replaced with drug abuse, although this is not necessarily bad. So far the most fun aspects of the anime are replicated to an admirable degree. Funnily enough, it looks less gory than in the animated version. The choreography for the fighting appears to be the same. One of the more disgusting shots, where one man loses his lunch, is also left in. In the bathroom scene, the level of detail shown when a character is stabbed is replicated exactly. The swearing is cut down significantly, although not eliminated, which makes it less off-putting to casual action movie goers. Another given positive of live action film is that one doesn’t have to worry about distributing a budget to accommodate how much characters move. It was also the highlight of the animated piece. Everything you may want to see in an action movie was there: hand to hand combat, guns, explosives, and more. The animation of Kite exceeded in these action scenes, especially with hand to hand combat. It is easier to show violence than sex in the film, so one can imagine, and hope, that with the over the top violence watered down, the action scenes will provide the same, perhaps greater, measure of entertainment when compared to the original. This is an understandable choice as it makes the material more believable, although perhaps less fun. The live action interpretation has a lot less blood, although the basic acts of violence appear to be left intact for the movie. In the elevator scene the anime had exploding heads, and unrealistic proportions of ketchup colored blood flying everywhere. Two scenes are exposed which are almost shot-per-shot replications of the original: the elevator and bathroom scenes. An example of the off putting color composition in the original animeįrom the trailer, and the few sneak preview scenes on Youtube, a number of conclusions can be drawn from what is presented about the film so far. What Kite improves upon compared to others of its time, like Wicked City, is by having an interesting story and sympathetic characters. To some, its graphic nature is what brings forth enjoyment. Kite brings everything uncomfortable to the extreme and is an enjoyable film if the viewer can ignore all these things. The entertainment industry loves action and sex, so why not put the two together? Within the first few lines the f-bomb, c and b-word are dropped, which gives an immediate idea of what to expect. The same could be said for the violence and gratuitous swearing. Kite is a difficult yet equally important film to watch as it displays the gory, highly sexual aspects of anime that gave it a bad reputation back in the 90’s. The shock value of the elements of sex and nudity in the 1998 anime could have been what created its “cult classic” status. At least on paper the production appears to be in good hands. He has directed some highly acclaimed, although unheard of, films like Jerusalema, The Zookeeper and Hearts and Minds. David R Ellis was originally chosen to direct the live-action adaption but sadly passed away, so Ralph Ziman took up the role. Unless you are in the mood for that style of hentai (anime porn), I would highly recommend to stay away from the uncut version as it disrupts the seriousness of the narrative and brings the level of content to overkill. It is highly distracting to say the least. And since it was between a teenager and a grown man, Kite was banned in several countries. What makes up the extra 10 minutes of the longer version? Explicit pornography. It was originally a set of short films (OVAs), but was combined together to create the 50-60 minute feature. Kite by Yasuomi Umetsu is what would happen if Stephen King and Quenten Tarantino got together and made an animated feature. In order to make any judgments about the quality of the live action film, it is worth investigating what made the original Kite popular (often called a ‘cult classic’), and contrast the footage presented so far to the anime. ![]() If the trailer did not make this obvious enough, Kite tells the story of a high school girl, Sawa, who works as a crime fighter, and the people she meets along the way. There are so many unenthusiastic groans from news sites, YouTube comments and message boards, one could almost hear them off screen. The trailer for the upcoming live-action adaption for the 1998 anime short film Kite has received a lot of negativity from the internet at large.
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![]() The version comes with the number of build 21F5058e. MacOS 12.4 beta 2 is now available through the OTA update system for developers who are already testing the first beta of that version, as well as being available on Apple’s developer website. Today is beta day in Cupertino, and following the release of the first macOS 12.4 beta for developers and public testers just two weeks agojust a few minutes ago these developers can start testing the second beta of macOS Monterey 12.4. just launched macOS Monterey 12.4 beta 2 for developers. Today is beta day, and from Cupertino they have released new versions for the software developers of all the devices that have a bitten apple printed on them, including Macs. Sometimes it may go slower, and other times faster, but it is sure to always be working and ensuring the safety and comfort of its users. ![]() The new beta and its subsequent general release will fix none of those.The Apple machine never stops. When a new bug gets into your workflow, your heart sinks and your stress levels peak, because you know that this is it forever it's never going to get sorted. As another poster herein observes, nothing ever seems to get fixed we just see the bugs get worse and more numerous. There are Reddit threads for just about all of them, so please don't add "works for me" comments - good for you it doesn't work for a lot of other people. ![]() These are faults I've experienced consistently personally on a wide variety of machines, of a wide age span and across Intel and x86, both brand new purchased with Monterey from the start back to machines upgraded over several years of macOS releases. Now that sometimes works or sometimes, bizarrely, your scroll gesture makes the mouse pointer move instead.you get the idea. You used to be able to reliably use a two-finger scroll gesture at the same time as the drag. rename a tab group involves fighting it constantly dropping input focus until eventually it settles long enough for you to type something (which may or may not get sync'd) * Safari: Adding/deleting tabs within a tab group can cause a "dead" tab that can't be closed and doesn't change no matter what you try to visit * Safari: Make enough changes in tab groups and the browser will outright crash * Safari: Things in a tab group are trapped forever and you have to manually pull them out if you want to remove the tab group but keep the tabs (deleting a tab group will replace every window on every device that has that tab group with a tabs from an apparently-arbitrarily-chosen other tab group, but in a kinda-broken state where they don't quite sync properly and, of course, what you wanted it to do was just delete the group, but leave your Safari windows and their tabs open - just not in a named group anymore) * Safari: M1 only AFAICS, gets into a state where external link opens don't work - the browser gains focus but no new page or tab opens requires actual reboot, not just a Safari quit/restart to resolve fortunately, very rare * iCloud drive: Can fail to sync, as above, anyone at Apple notice a pattern here?! * macOS: Since round about Monterey, a rewritten trackpad driver appears to have a very large number of race conditions which can introduce super-annoying misbehaviour such as: You're dragging something. So here's my own "does it fix" list: * Apple Music: Internal "failed to prepare to play" error (API level) -> track silently skipped, next one plays * Apple Music: Track slight stutter at start of any and all lossless playbacks, most noticeable with rhythmic track intros * Apple Music: After a while of working, gets into a state where it completely fails to sync playlist changes at all and never works again until you sign out of every single device everywhere then sign back in one by one, after which it works for a while until it subsequently, once again, breaks (iOS works fine, Cider works fine and astonishingly even iTunes works fine when loaded via Retroactive on the very same x86 machine where Music is sitting there, failing to sync anything) * Apple Music: Very slow playback startup with lossless, sometimes just goes with lossy for no reason * Apple Music: Super janky and inconsistent "back" button behaviour, when it's even visible * Apple Music: Catalyst apps can't play any Apple Music content whatsoever it's simply broken, acknowledged by Apple engineering several months ago but apparently making basic music playback work is a super hard challenge for today's l33t super-well-paid engineering staff or something?! * Safari: Tab group changes completely fail to sync, see playlists above * Safari: Attempting to e.g. ![]()
One can visualize the uranium nucleus to be like a liquid drop containing protons and neutrons. Lise Meitner (1878 –1968), a long –time colleague of Hahn who had left Germany due to Nazi persecution, suggested a helpful model for such a reaction. It was very puzzling to them how a single neutron could transform element 92 into element 56. Hahn and Strassmann published a scientific paper showing that small amounts of barium (element 56) were produced when uranium (element 92) was bombarded with neutrons. The evidence for this supposed process came from chemical analysis. The uranium nucleus apparently underwent a major disruption. When uranium was bombarded with neutrons, however, an entirely different reaction seemed to occur. Other elements became radioactive in the same way. If they bombarded copper, for example, a radioactive form of copper was produced. They had been doing a series of experiments in which they used neutrons to bombard various elements. The fission reaction was discovered in l938 by two German scientists, Otto Hahn (1879 –1968) and Fritz Strassmann (1902 –1980). ![]() Reactors are utilized for production of electricity at nuclear power plants, for propulsion of ships and submarines, and for the creation of radioactive isotopes used in medicine and industry. After the war, controlled energy release from fission was applied to the development of nuclear reactors. The fission reaction was the basis of the atomic bomb, which was developed by the United States during World War II. ![]() Fission fragments were shown to fly apart with a large release of energy. This reaction was discovered when a target of uranium was bombarded by neutrons. Nuclear fission when the nucleus of an atom splits, usually into two pieces. The controversy about nuclear power plants Nuclear reactors for electric power production ![]() RSVP and share this invitation with your family and friends. We will provide exact GPS location to those who register in advance * Feel mentally calm, centered and focused * Feel physically and emotionally refreshed How to achieve a sense of peace and happiness by connecting with your body.How to feel more confident in observing your thoughts and emotions without reacting. ![]()
And there it has stuck, for a little more than a century: even girls continue to be guys. Eventually, at the start of the 20th century, its plural form became even more generic, used predominantly in the US to address or refer to any group of people, regardless of their gender. Then, slowly over the next couple of centuries the word guy widened its meaning to describe any villainous person or man. To this day, Brits enjoy fireworks and bonfires on “Guy Fawkes Day” – which even enjoys its own jaunty rhyme – although the old tradition of children chanting and collecting “a penny for the guy” to pay for the local fireworks party has pretty well disappeared. And so the bomb-plotter’s first name took hold: in towns and villages up and down the country, the eponymous effigy was made from rags and sticks and eventually thrown onto a fire to the community’s ritual delight. Fawkes’s plan failed, and Brits started to commemorate that fateful day – November 5 – by burning effigies of said “Guy” on bonfires. This admission, I think, strengthens the argument for the African origin of the word.” This is surely an intriguing possibility.Ī more popular and much more widely accepted theory is that the word guy originated in England in the early 17th century, as a result of the infamous “Gunpowder Plot.” In a nutshell: a young Catholic soldier named Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament and to assassinate King James I in 1605, in an effort to restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. All the etymological dictionaries I consulted have no insight on the origin of “guy” other than to say that it came to global, mainstream English from American English. David Dalby, a well-regarded English linguist known for his Linguasphere Observatory, once made the case that the plural, non-gendered “guys” in English owes etymological debts to the Wolof “gay,” which is also non-gendered and plural. Kperogi, in his book Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World, “Dr. ![]() Something has crested in particular over about the past 10 years.”įirst let’s take a stroll through the origins of the word “guy” – used in both its singular and plural senses. As the linguist John McWhorter explained to The Atlantic in 2018, in a discussion about this very subject: “I think there’s a really serious and welcome reconception of gender lines and relationships between sex and gender going on. ![]() We’ve seen substantial changes in our language since then. President Obama used to end his news conferences with “Thanks you guys I appreciate it” – but that was already four years ago (and what a long four years that has been). ![]() But how do modern English-speakers – especially female and non-binary folks – respond to that catch-all term used to conveniently and informally address a group of people in the absence of a genderless second person plural in standard English (which German-, Turkish- and Gaelic-speakers, among others, are lucky enough to have in their linguistic toolkits)?Ībout seven years ago Glossophilia published a post called “ Boys will be guys,” which looked at the word guy in all its guises, including how it’s used in the plural to mean “multiple people regardless of their gender.” Admittedly a lighthearted and anecdotal post, it portrayed guys as a perfectly acceptable/accepted term that few objected to at the time. Is “you guys” no longer appropriate to use in our more enlightened gender-neutral speech? It has an undeniably male “twang” to it, that’s for sure. Our vision of creating an engaging, supportive, diverse, and respectful community is coming to life and thriving. ![]() Early results show members with the Open to Work photo frame are receiving 40% more Inmails from recruiters and 20% more messages from the LinkedIn community. Nearly 2.5 million members have adopted the frame, from airline pilots to data analysts. So we launched “Open to Work,” a simple LinkedIn profile photo frame that says just that: you’re looking for your next opportunity. But we know from our data and our conversations with customers that recruiters want to know who is available, communities want to know who to support and members want jobs. For so long, people were told to keep it quiet if they were looking for work. We’ve also set out to redesign not just the LinkedIn experience, but how members find opportunity. Whether you connect to colleagues, customers, mentors, former or current manager, industry influencers, or job seekers - community is the heart of LinkedIn.Īnd today, I couldn’t be more excited to announce we’re redesigning LinkedIn to make your LinkedIn experience easy, inclusive, enjoyable, and most importantly to put the community front and center. And every day on LinkedIn, despite the tough economy, 3 people are hired every minute through the community.Īll of you that share, inspire, help, and hire each day, are what make up LinkedIn. Today we’re seeing members sharing in record numbers, sending hundreds of millions of messages every week, reskilling themselves by consuming more than one million hours of LinkedIn Learning content weekly, and last year alone nearly five billion connections were made across the platform. Since our last major redesign nearly five years ago, LinkedIn has evolved from a place to create your professional profile online and search for others, to an active community of more than 700M professionals worldwide. The replacement of the Inspire 2 will also likely represent the end of the DJI Go 4 app in consumer / prosumer products. ![]() Interestingly foldable propellors are also expected. Videos were seen in July, too, and feature wish-lists have suggested it might offer 8K at 75fps (and 4K at 200fps) as well as full collision sensors (we’d say that was pretty much guaranteed) and an improved version of APAS. In September, however, there very much wasn’t an Inspire 3 launch (nor did a ‘Pocket 3’ show up in November, but that isn’t a drone.) Still, some photos and videos of a possible Inspire 3 were leaked as early as April, when an alleged crashed prototype were posted by OsitaLV. Always check and follow the applicable rules wherever you fly.A lot of DJI-watchers this year have been following a roadmap leaked the year before, and it got a lot things about right (‘FPV Mini’ turned out to mean Avata). DJI never collects or shares user data without user consent. All flight locations displayed by the Fly Spots feature are based on voluntarily-shared location tags from SkyPixel users. The Fly Spots feature is currently available only in Mainland China. Transmitted images from the goggles to the app can be sent to a smartphone via cable (USB-C to USB-C or USB-C to lightning).ġ2. This feature is only available when using DJI FPV. The DJI Virtual Flight app currently supports only iOS devices.ġ1. For more information, contact DJI Support.ġ0. If you purchase DJI Care Refresh (2-Year Plan), you will also enjoy an extension of the original warranty by up to two years (extension duration varies by region). DJI Care Refresh (DJI FPV) provides replacements for a small additional cost. DJI Care Refresh (DJI FPV) is a service plan that provides you with greater peace of mind during flight. Measured in an open, outdoor environment with no obstacles or interference.ĩ. Always follow local rules and regulations and fly your drone within your visual line of sight unless otherwise permitted.Ĩ. The highest video transmission bitrate is 50 Mbps. Measurements were taken in unobstructed environments free of interference. To obtain a more precise control experience when using M mode, adjust the F1 screw on the back of the thrust control stick (right side if flying in Mode 1, left side if flying in Mode 2) to disable recentering.ĥ. The DJI FPV aircraft supports two video coding formats, while the DJI FPV Goggles V2 only supports H.264.Ħ. In 810p/120fps Low-Latency mode, the video transmission latency is lower than 28ms in 810p/60fps High-Quality mode, the video transmission latency is lower than 40ms.ħ. FCC-compliant. In this mode, DJI FPV will automatically decelerate when it detects obstacles, but it will not automatically stop.Ĥ. To ensure flight safety when using M mode, it is recommended to have another person present to observe the flight environment. ![]() ![]() Ensure that your flights are conducted safely and in accordance with all local laws and regulations.Ģ. The 150° FOV is only applicable when shooting at 50 or 100 fps.ģ. Obstacle sensing is only available when the aircraft is in N mode. 1. Before flying DJI FPV, check local laws and regulations. ![]() Other external devices may also increase the workload of your Mac’s hardware and cause it to emit more heat. Here, we are mostly talking about external display/monitors, as those (especially HD ones) are really taxing on the GPU and CPU, forcing them to work with greater intensity and give off more heat, which leads to the fans turning faster and being louder (as they should in such cases). If you think there’s too much dust inside your Mac, we recommend taking it to a certified Apple technician who can take apart the machine and thoroughly clean its parts.ĭisconnect devices that require heavy GPU use However, this must be done by a professional, so we suggest that you don’t attempt to do it on your own. It will always be more effective to thoroughly clean the different parts of the fan after opening the MacBook. Note, however, that not all of the dust will come out that way, especially if your MacBook is older and has been in use for a long time. You can stop an app from the Activity Monitor by selecting it, clicking the X in the top left, and then clicking on Quit.Īs we mentioned earlier, heavy GPU use is what typically raises the MacBook temperature the most, so it is suggested that you first quit the apps that are using the most GPU. After that, select Memory and then Energy and see the most resource-intensive apps shown there.ĭoing this will help you figure out which app(s) is using the largest amount of system resources – stopping that app should help with reducing the amount of heat that the MacBook emits and, in turn, lower the speed at which the fan is turning. There’s also a GPU column, so pay attention to it as well. Start the Activity Monitor by going to Finder > Applications > Utilities and double-clicking on the Activity Monitor icon.įirst, select CPU and see which of the apps are using the MacBook’s CPU the most. To learn how to reset the NVRAM of your Mac, please, follow the linked page. If it gets bugged, it can also result in the unusual behavior of certain system components, which is why resetting it may be a possible way to fix any fan-related issues. NVRAM is a small amount of virtual memory that stores information about the MacBook’s current settings and state. A simple SMC restart can typically fix any such bugs and bring things back to normal, so we strongly advise you to try restarting your MacBook’s SMC. Sometimes, however, a bug in the Controller can cause some of those components to act in unusual ways. The System Management Controller (SMC) of your MacBook is a system responsible for controlling many different components and aspects of the computer, including the power management and power supply, the keyboard, and the cooling fans. You can also try quitting any CPU-intensive apps and apps that are draining too much battery, as those can also cause the fan of your MacBook to run unusually fast. If your MacBook Pro fan is always running at an unusually high speed and is making a lot of noise, you can try resetting the machine’s SMC and NVRAM/PRAM, like we’ve shown below. Below, we’ve provided several suggestions that may help with this issue, so go ahead and try them until, hopefully, one of them gets the job done. This doesn’t necessarily mean there’s anything wrong with the fan, but since, as we said, it’s always working while the computer is on, its components sooner or later start to wear out, which causes the fan to become noisierĭepending on what causes your MacBook’s fan to be noisy or to spin too quickly, there are different things you can do to fix this. ![]() For instance, a MacBook that is already several years old and has seen frequent use is expected to start making more noise with its fan. One more thing to factor in is the age of your Mac and, respectively, its fan. Laptops, in general, are known for overheating much more easily compared to desktop computers, and this becomes especially apparent when their GPUsare being used at high intensity since the latter tend to emit lots of heat. As we already mentioned, a possible reason as to why your MacBook fan keeps running could be dust build-up that causes the fan to make too much noise and/or run at higher than usual RPM (revolutions per minute).Īnother possible cause is if something is causing your MacBook to use its GPU (graphics card) with greater intensity than usual. It can also make a justifiable claim to many other inventions including: Iron casting Examinations Spaghetti Fans Porcelain Blast furnaces the Abacus Ship rudders Silk Planetaria Printed books Pasta Kites Paper money Ice cream Wheelbarrows Acupuncture and many more. It seems that direct contacts between ‘Europe’ and ‘China’ were few and it was the Central Asian intermediaries who traded in the strange new inventions from the mysterious East.Ĭhina traditionally lays claim to four great inventions: paper printing gunpowder and the compass. Along the desert Silk Roads between the two great civilizations of the time there must have been the transmission of objects of the greatest value: ideas and inventions. In the case of China, the trade between Rome and China in the Han dynasty is well known and documented. An invention in one place can lead to it being found after a hundred years over a very widespread area. So tracing the first appearance of something is a case of careful detective work. Even so it is quite possible for the same idea to be independently discovered in several places at more or less the same time, greatly complicating any search for the origin. It is only when an invention becomes widely adopted that there is a realistic chance that someone will have written down an accurate account. The first invention of something is by its nature an isolated event and it is unlikely that the initial discovery is faithfully recorded. Working out who invented precisely what and when is a daunting task as contemporaneous records are fragmentary. ![]() Needham at Cambridge have discovered that many of the great achievements in science and technology actually originated from China. Up until the 1960s World Civilization was considered to have started in the Middle East and Mediterranean with not much of any consequence elsewhere. Even today, those well-versed with the Chinese abacus can easily calculate at the speed of the modern calculator.Ming dynasty (1368-1644) waterwheel at Lanzhou, Gansu / Photo by Giddens Memorial East Asian Museum, Wikimedia Commons The abacus system in ancient China was an extremely advanced form of calculation. The original position of the suanpan was when all the beads are away from the beam. The extreme right vertical rod signified the ones place subsequently followed by tens, hundreds and thousand places while moving from right to left. When the beads were moved towards the beam, it meant counting them in and moving them away meant not counting their value. The basic calculation involved moving the beads up and down the rods towards and away from the horizontal beam. The suanpan was efficient for all simple and advanced calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root and cube root. The bottom beads were mainly used for counting decimal and hexadecimal numbers. The beads were usually designed in the shape of a rhombus. There were more than seven rods in the tray and each rod consisted of two beads in the heaven part and five beads in the earth section. The tray was divided into two main sections by a horizontal beam with the top section referred as the heaven while the bottom part is referred as the earth. ![]() The basic structure of the ancient Chinese abacus comprised of a tray, which has a height of about 20cms and varying widths. Basic Structure of ancient Chinese abacus Ancient Chinese abacus structure It was during the Ming dynasty that the Chinese abacus spread beyond the Chinese territory and reached Japan. ![]() This scroll was painted during the Song dynasty that ruled China from 960-1297 AD. The greatest proof of the use of abacus in ancient China can be derived in the long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan, where the suanpan is painted with an account book. Many of the ancient and powerful dynasties in China used the abacus. The abacus in ancient China was also known as the suanpan, its literal meaning being the counting tray. |
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