Just it feels like he probably should’ve had a companion with him to bounce off of during the second third of the game, to add some levity to the proceedings. ![]() Neil Watts has, and Neil is a comedic king in these games. That’s a shame, because Quincy is a fun guy to hang out with otherwise. There are times where he just seems emotionless, even when he really shouldn’t be. We aren’t following indifferent but sympathetic workers, but a person with a kind heart, and so his reactions to the memories he witnesses are much more raw and emotional.when he reacts. Quincy has no clue as to where he is and what these orbs do, and that makes for an interesting twist on the formula. Except this time, there are no bickering scientists one-lining their way through a person’s life- instead, Quincy is the one in control, and this alone is an interesting concept. I won’t go into too much detail about the other two-thirds of the game, but I will say that the second half is more or less what you would come to expect from a Kan Gap game: exploring memories, collecting orbs, and moving on to the next memory. That was what the game was hinting at, right?īut like the Steam page says, that is only the first third of the game. It would also explain why the old couple kept getting killed in the simulation, perhaps implying how Lyndi resents this couple for taking her research and using it for “altruistic” reasons, and wishing she never got involved with the foundation in the first place. ![]() ![]() It would kind of tie into Lyndi’s frequent bouts with imposter syndrome, feeling like she doesn’t deserve the life she has or what she accomplished in the field of science because her personal life got screwed up so bad. When Faye (the imaginary friend girl from FP) shows up, I was like “oh, Neil and Eva are a part of this game after all!” They hadn’t showed up in the game yet, and so I thought they were here to save the day. Up until that point, I had thought that maybe Lyndi was a rogue Sigmund Corp scientist that took her own memory machine to dream up a scenario where her former husband and her met at a murder mystery party and stayed together forever. Now don’t get me wrong, I was riding the emotion wave like everyone else when I was playing the ending.
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![]() “I feel like, I’ve been living in New England for 13 years but I’ve only really been living there for five.” “We were finally able to actually enjoy New England,” she says. She finally got a car five years ago because her husband needed to drive to his office. Wanting to go anyplace outside of the city was a complete hassle,” Dougherty says. “I have lived in Boston for 13 years now, and I remember being a student at BU and not having a car. And it’s an experience Dougherty herself can relate to. Not having cars makes it hard for younger people to really enjoy the places that they live, she says. “There’s lots of reasons why people chose not to own cars, and there’s even a movement where people aren’t getting drivers licenses anymore,” Lindsey Dougherty, marketing manager for Skedaddle, explains to Inverse. One of the important things for Skedaddle is that young people aren’t really driving like older generations. The transportation start-up that aims to move people, many of them college-aged, to places where they can experience ski trips or music festivals doesn’t seem that far removed from the lifestyles of its customer base. The only wall decoration at the office is a tattered page of the New York Times with a giant photo of Bill Maher emblazoned with the headline “Bill Maher Isn’t High on Trump.” It turns out that there’s a write-up about Skedaddle’s work just to the left of Maher’s head. It’s reminiscent of a communal sink in a college dorm. The first thing you notice in the New York offices of Skedaddle is a sink full of dirty dishes. For a company running on college students, that means one thing this time of year: SXSW, Coachella, and Spring Break road trips. In the future, the company wants to give young people access to parts of the world that were previously closed off to them.Īfter its time in the spotlight at the Women’s March, the company is eyeing its future. The real draw to Skedaddle seems to be when you live in a place you want to escape, but only sometimes, making college campuses or cities full of young transplants its main markets. It’s the idea that mass transit can be fun and inexpensive, with a system tailored to a clientele of college students. Its founders have struggled with our current mass transit system that relies on strict lines, timetables, and old infrastructure, which Nestler describes as “archaic.” They see a future where getting a bus out of the city happens on a flexible schedule and the bus comes to you. The New York-based startup wants to change mass transit. “I was on-site and it was amazing to see all these women and men dressed up with their signs ready to march.” The March overall was a great success for us,” Craig Nestler, the director of product development and co-founder of Skedaddle tells Inverse. The bus-sharing startup had blown up literally overnight. With 11,000 pink-hat wearing passengers on board for the Women’s March in Washington DC in January, Skedaddle had to stop accepting new riders. ![]() In fact, to my ears, the SQ is marvelous and close to that coming from the PerfectWave Transport Memory player. This last bit is certainly not unique amongst the available programs, in fact I don’t know if any of this is unique, but here’s what I do know: it seems to be the least intrusive to the user experience than any of the other programs I tried (and I tried most of the big names) without any compromise in sound quality. ![]() Moreover, it makes sure the sample rate and bit depth remain exactly true to the source material without any intervention from the user. There it fills up the memory until enough has been added, and sends it on its way out the USB port in bit perfect fashion (hence the name). The program hides in the background as if it didn’t exist and yet is extremely powerful: grabbing the audio from iTunes and forwarding it in perfect form to the computer’s memory. Let me say upfront that none of the available choices for software are perfect, so we have to choose whatever we think is closest to our goals of simplicity without sacrificing the sound quality.įor this task I have chosen Bit Perfect. A tall order actually, but it is achievable. I want all the features and fun of using iTunes for my music, but I don’t want any hassle or downside to playing it. I am going to tell you about the one I’ve chosen and why.įrom the beginning of this project I’ve mentioned my goal was simplicity, no need for keyboards, mice and video screens, high-end performance and ease of use. There are a few excellent software programs out there that do exactly what we want. We do, however, want to keep iTunes for our music management tool. Both Apple and Microsoft want to fool with your audio in ways that don’t serve the music and we’re not going to let them do that. What we want in our choice of software is a means for the audio stored on our hard drive to get out of the computer without being altered or molested in any way. All in, we’re looking at about $1,000, which was the goal from the start of this project. You can download Max for free which will do bit perfect batch conversion of FLAC and pretty much every other popular audio format into Apple lossless format.In yesterday’s postI described the balance of what we will need to make our music server: a Mac Mini, a Mac Super Drive, an iPad Mini for the user interface, and software that makes it all sound good. Or you could do what I do and use iTunes with BitPerfect or something similar to automatically switch the Midi preferences to match the track that's playing. Or check the preferences for Vox and see if it provides an option to change the output settings automatically. In the above example it just sees a 24 bit / 44.1kHz track coming down the USB cable.Ĭhanging your Midi preferences to 16 bit / 44.1kHz should leave the majority of CD quality lossless files unmolested. The extra processing means that some of the original bits might be lost, to be replaced by interpolated bits.Īpart from with the bit perfect test files, where the DAC knows what to expect to find in the track, there's no way for the DAC to tell whether a track started out as 16 bit / 44.1kHz, 24 bit / 352.8kHz or something in between. That will definitely cause a bit perfect test to fail and might even be audible when playing back music. ![]() But they're probably enough to cause a bit perfect test to fail.Ĭhanging the sample rate is a different matter. These extra bits probably won't have any audible impact on sound quality, they're just padding and all of the original bits should be retained. I'm pretty sure that UK Macs default to 24 bit / 44.1kHz which means that the Mac is actually inserting a whole bunch of zeros to a typical 16 bit / 44.1kHz CD quality lossless track before sending it on to the DAC. I don't think there's a way to program around this, at least not with recent versions of OS X. The trouble is that Macs always resample to the bit depth and sample rate set in the Midi preferences pane. If the signal from the computer doesn't match up then it fails the test. The DAC knows what bits to expect from Naim's test files. ![]() Bit perfect (as distinct from BitPerfect the product) just means that the DAC receives all of the bits in the original track unmolested. Obviously, you will need as many layers as you want to play simultaneous clips. You can then play 'chords' of clips with the keyboard or a MIDI device - each of them will be displayed for as long as it is selected. The Free Layer Clip Target mode is particularly fun when used with the Piano Trigger Style mode (see below). There's also the option to trigger a clip in whichever layer is free. ![]() This will let you improvise more quickly with a large set of content. If you prefer, you can change that so the clip will play in whichever layer you have active at the moment of triggering. This is the most organised and easy to follow way of triggering. The default thing that happens when you click a clip is that it plays in the layer it is on. You can set the Beat Snap option for the whole Composition through the Composition > Beat Snap menu options. If you set the clip setting to 'Composition determined', it will use whatever the Composition setting is. Select the clip and select the Clip > Beat Snap menu option. You can set the Beat Snap option for an individual clip. In some music software, this feature is known as "Quantising". This is particularly useful for audio-visual music clips. You can use the Beat Snap option to have clips wait until the next beat, the next bar, in 2 bars, in 4 bars and so on, before it starts. Shift select the clips, and then change the function via the Clip menu or the right click drop down. You can select a clip, rather than trigger it, by clicking the name handle underneath the thumbnail.īonus Tip! All the functions described below can can be changed for multiple clips at the same time as well. Tip! Want to change a setting before a clip is live? No problem. You can change how individual clips respond to a trigger. This is a great way to quickly switch looks by triggering a set of clips that work well together. You can trigger multiple clips at the same time by triggering the column. ![]() Because there are loads of options! Column Triggering Trigger the right clip at the right time. Or press the big X to the left of the layer to eject it. When you're sick of a clip, you can either trigger a new one in its place. ![]() Triggering a clip is as simple as clicking its thumbnail. Basically a clip is any type of media you create your output with. It could also be an audio file, or even a combination of audio and video.Ĭlips can also contain Sources - like a live camera or plugins that generate content on the fly. Without clips we wouldn't have any content to throw at the screens and speakers.Ī clip is usually a video. Clips are the real nuts and bolts of Resolume. ![]() The test required that Funk float in an 8-foot tank of warm water - a tank located in a small, airtight room with no sounds, no smells, no stimulation of any kind. Clinicians confessed to her that the "dog dip" was longer and more isolating for the women than it was for the men. ![]() Funk cites the sensory deprivation test she took as a case in point. They endured nearly 100 X-rays, drank radioactive water, swallowed rubber hosing, had their ears injected with freezing water to trigger disorientation.Īt times the performance standards were higher for the Mercury 13 than for the men of the Mercury 7. Some 50 different exams measured the women's physical strength, conditioning, endurance and adaptability. Many of today's female astronauts say their own tests pale in comparison to those taken by the Mercury 13. In all, 26 women pilots came to New Mexico to be tested for what was described in letters from Lovelace to the candidates as "the women in space program." Thirteen women - the Mercury 13 - passed the tests: Cobb, Myrtle "K" Cagle, twin sisters Jan and Marion Dietrich, Wally Funk, Jane Hart, Jean Hixson, Gene Nora Jessen, Irene Leverton, Sarah Gorelick Ratley, Bernice "B" Steadman, Truhill and Rhea Allison Woltman. Lovelace asked Jerrie Cobb, a celebrated woman pilot out of Oklahoma, to come to Albuquerque to take the initial round of exams and to help him identify other women who might make the grade. The space race was in full swing and if America couldn't beat the Russians in sending a man into space, thought Lovelace, then why not send women? He was curious to know whether female pilots could measure up to the same rigorous tests that the men had taken at his clinic in Albuquerque, N.M. Three years before that hearing, Randolph Lovelace II, chairman of NASA's Special Advisory Committee on Life Sciences, had just selected Glenn, Alan Shepard and the rest of the famed Mercury 7 astronauts. To quote John Glenn, testifying at a 1962 congressional hearing on official astronaut qualifications: "The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order." Despite extraordinary performance in all categories (perhaps in spite of it), they could not clear the political hurdle presented by their gender. Pilots handpicked in the early '60s to be potential space cowgirls, they aced a series of physical tests designed to determine their suitability as astronauts, in some cases tests more rigorous than those given to men. The Mercury 13 comprised a bunch of amazing women whose timing was all wrong. "Instead they treat us as interlopers, invading their space." "I'd like NASA to stop denying the contribution we made and were prepared to make," says Jerri Sloan Truhill of the Mercury 13 group. It would be the highest honor that the group of would-be astronauts has ever received, despite their historical achievements and a brush with fame. Someday, if they're very lucky, the Mercury 13 flight crew might get to be an answer on "Jeopardy." The question? "What prospective group of astronauts became astro-nots midway through their testing for the job?" It is the culmination of official recognition for the men of the first moon mission, whose past honors include White House receptions, Smithsonian exhibits, a commemorative stamp and an action toy of their spacecraft. Earlier this month, Congress cleared the way for the crew of Apollo 11 to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. ![]() Sets key parameters of the 3D printer, including length, width, and height of the volume accessible by the printer. The volume is defined within the Printer Definitions dialog box. Toggles the boundary of the default 3D Printer. Support structures controls, include Attach Radius, Midpoint Radius, Base Radius, Base Thickness, and Drag base and midpoints to modify structure location. Manually adds geometry to support material as it is created by the 3D printer. The Auto Position tool translates the model to the positive x, y coordinate system at z=0. Use to verify that a part has closed, non-overlapping sections, a requirement for 3D printing. The dialog box allows for animation through the slices and single-stepping. This interface will help you to slice models given a direction and thickness. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets are examined using ray intersections. This tool provides a means to visually inspect modeling areas that may be too thin for 3D printing. Angles that are less or equal to 45 degrees are highlighted as red. ![]() Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets normals are compared to the work plane direction. This will help you visually inspect modeling areas that may require structural support for 3D printing. This will check for problems and we have several commands that can help you fix it. If facet normals are pointing the wrong way, the 3D printer may have problems creating the part. 3D Print CheckĬhecks for print viability, displaying warnings or errors to the user.įacet normals define the inside and outside areas of a part. ViaCAD 2D/3D includes 3D printing tools to prepare and validate your designs to make them 3D printer ready. The Gripper adds drag and drop capabilities to make editing designs easy breezy.Ĭustomizable Grids add another level of ease by providing precision drag and drop in rectangular, polar (circular), and isometric layouts. The LogiCursor™ anticipates your next action and guides your cursor to potential point selections in the drawing.
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