![]() ![]() My old skiing buddy, Matt Watson at Carlyle has his Stick of Truth, and I have my Chopstick of Shame. But what does irritate me is how much of it is fake. ![]() Now, whether you like it or not is purely subjective, and I certainly enjoy its sense of theater. It's like Mini's designers took one look at the Honda Civic Type R and said, hold my beer. The Mini Cooper S that won the Monte Carlo rally still looked like my mom's shopping machine. That first, classic Mini really was a work of genius, a genuinely pioneering family car with trick suspension that just happened to be good on the track and rally stage. And I'm sure we can all agree what a tragedy that would have been. It was my mom's first car, and legend has it that if she hadn't broken down in it and asked my dad for help, then I wouldn't have been here. To be honest, I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Minis. But before all of that, be sure to subscribe to the Edmunds channel, and check out the link below for a companion piece on that reveals all the testing data. We're going to put them through the full Edmunds testing procedure, and then we're going to drive them on the track and declare a winner. Both are either new or updated, both are over 300 horsepower, both are front wheel drive, and both are uncompromising in their pursuit of performance. I'm Alistair Weaver, and we're here at the Edmunds Test Track with two of the hottest hatchbacks ever produced. ALISTAIR WEAVER: The Honda Civic Type R has long been Edmunds's favorite hot hatch, but now its crown is under threat from the limited edition 2021 Mini John Cooper Works GP, the most powerful, most extreme, and the most expensive production Mini ever. Reduced sound insulation for lighter weight.Higher-performing Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires.The Civic Type R Limited Edition is only offered in Phoenix Yellow and adds: Lane keeping assist (makes minor steering corrections to help keep the vehicle centered in its lane).Forward collision mitigation (warns you of an impending collision and applies the brakes in certain scenarios).Adaptive cruise control (adjusts speed to maintain a constant distance between the vehicle and the car in front).HondaLink remote monitoring and control.The base Touring trim is well appointed with feature highlights that include: ![]()
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![]() As the source file is from a much earlier point in development, Misty's coordinates do not match up with the location of the hospital in the final game. The objective is also different, telling you to not only pick up Misty from the hospital as you do in the final mission but a second girl named Trixie from "Reverend Flannery's" as well. The mission doesn't seem to have a proper motion captured cutscene or any voice acting yet. Pick up the girls and return them to Luigi, who rewards you handsomely." and that it was ".for you to familiarize yourself with game controls and city layout.", though this version of the mission doesn't have any kind of tutorial implemented. This inaugural mission involves Luigi, pimp and owner of a seedy strip club called Sex Club Heaven, getting you to pick up two "ladies of the night", one from a shop and the other from a clinic. In issue 93 (July 2001) of HYPER magazine, Leslie Benzies mentioned that ".the first could be looked upon as a training one. The iOS port of the game contained mission source files, one of which seems to be an earlier version of Luigi‘s Girls. ![]() This, along with the fact that all of these leftovers can only be found within the Windows version of the game, suggests that FPS mode was a concept meant for the prequel instead. Fortunately, the PC version still has all of the animations made up until then, so we can witness them in all of their glory: ![]() Implementing this feature wasn't tried again until Grand Theft Auto V, and only for the next-gen versions as not even the 7th-Generation consoles could handle it. #ğPS anims loaded (ie available):ğPS_PUNCH, FPS_BAT, FPS_UZI, FPS_PUMP, FPS_AK, FPS_M16, FPS_ROCKET # X:đst person version of anim (using orig HGUN & PUMP cause they work better at mo') ![]() Grand Theft Auto III is the entry where the series went into a 3D third-person view and really threw GTA into mainstream media, laying down the foundations for the rest of the series as well as defining the wicked sense of humor that would enrage lawyers for years to come.Īccording to leftover data, first-person was once going to extend beyond a simple crosshair and into a fully-fledged mode with animations and all! Apparently the feature didn't make it very far, as not all of the necessary animations were completed, and comments in the weapon stats file indicates that it was only in the testing stages before getting axed: This game has a hidden developer message. ![]() ![]() ![]() As you speak, you'll see the volume control in the microphone go up and down, indicating the strength of your voice. As soon as you do, a small microphone icon next to your cursor will appear. Next, navigate to the menu bar and click Edit > Start Dictation. To start, open up your application of choice - such an email or word processor - and click anywhere where you want to input text.Ģ. The first way to use Dictation is from the menu bar at the top of your screen.ġ. In this guide we'll show you two different ways to enable voice dictation on your Mac: from the menu bar at the top of your screen and with a keyboard shortcut of your choice. If you're always multitasking and need something to help you write up long emails or leave quick comments, use Dictation. Dictation, on the other hand, works in any app or service on your Mac, meaning you could write an essay in Microsoft Word or leave a comment on YouTube in Safari - with only your voice. Siri does have a voice-to-text feature, but it only works with native applications like Mail and Messages. The tool, known as Dictation, lets you use your voice to type pretty much anywhere on your computer - which Siri can't do. Conveniently, Mac has another voice feature that fills in some of the holes that Siri leaves behind - including voice typing. With just my voice I can quickly search through hundreds of documents for a single file or check for free disk space if I'm running out of storage, but the intelligent personal assistant does have its limitations. I hardly ever use Siri on my iPhone, but boy, oh boy, do I take advantage on my Mac. ![]() ![]() ![]() The game boots straight to the main menu and everything is unlocked from the start! and much more! Quality of Life Improvements 100 Ring Box and MAX Air Box are disabled. Turbulence is much faster now to allow players to actually utilize it for catchup. Object layouts from single player are now used in multiplayer! (No longer do stages lose half their rings in multiplayer!) You can see these in the character select screen using the HD Texture Pack! Characters have been rebalanced into classes that give different stat bonuses. Players no longer lose all of their rings and stun times have been significantly reduced. Attacks have been massively overhauled. Most notably, Sky Road has received the most changes out of any stage in the game. Set pieces such as item boxes, power objects, fly hoops, and dash panels have been moved, changed, and/or removed to improve certain stages. Type shortcuts on stages (grind rails, fly hoops, power paths) have been sped up so that every type is viable on every stage. This fixes dash panels reducing the player's speed. Dash panels now increase the player's speed instead of setting it. ![]() Players can taunt using each of the 4 directions on the C-Stick. This is indicated by a purple exhaust trail. Introduces the "Clutch Toggle", which allows you toggle ignoring Turbulence and Pits by pressing the Y button. A new catchup mechanic called "Slipstream" had been added! Players following behind another player will begin to accelerate based on how well they are following their opponent! You can join the community here: Gameplay Changes They host content for both games in the form of tournaments, speedrunning, textures, competitive discussion, and modding. Extreme Gear Labs is the community for "Sonic Riders DX" and "Sonic Riders Regravitified" (a mod for "Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity). However, things became rocky due to reoccurring issues within the community, and eventually all of the developers, most of the testers, and most competitive players split off on their own help create what we know today as "Sonic Riders DX" and the community for "Extreme Gear Labs". New skips and glitches had been discovered, a better understanding of the game's potential with having a resource system, and more issues that would need to be fixed via modding. Over this period of time, more discoveries were made about the game. About a decade after the game's initial release, the competitive multiplayer community was founded, and 2 years after that, modding on the game began. This would be the growth of the speedrunning scene for the game, but the game was dead for multiplayer. In following years various exploits like pause buffering to drift while flying and Auto Slider Fly Glitch were utilized. From the dawn of speedrunning the game, players quickly realized "High Booster" was the fastest Extreme Gear boasting an insane boost speed of 350. "Sonic Riders" has always been perceived as a racing game with a high skill curve with little explanation on how to master it. The mod is currently for the GameCube version, often played using Dolphin Emulator. Sonic Riders DX is a competitive mod for Sonic Riders that modifies the game to introduce new gameplay styles by modifying the gears and characters, adds mechanical fixes, and balance stages across all 3 types. Similar to its implementation in "Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity", players begin to accelerate while following behind their opponent.IMPORTANT: SONIC RIDERS DX VERSION 2.0 IS NOW AVAILABLE, DX 1.0 IS OUTDATED This enables "Boost Chaining", an advanced technique, to usable at all levels instead of level 1.Ī new catchup mechanic, Slipstream, was added to the game. This makes Power mirror matches less one-sided.ĭeceleration no longer increases based on maximum speed, meaning it works the same at all levels. Power Objects respawn almost instantly during Power-Type mirror matches. Players no longer lose all of their rings when falling out of the map or when attacked. This is indicated by a purple exhaust trail.Īfter leaving a race, the game skips memory card checks and returns to Stage Select for fast access.ĭash Panels and the Speed Shoes item increase the player's speed rather than slowing them down by setting their speed. You can press the Y-Button to toggle the ability to ignore Turbulence and Pits. The timer is placed in the center of the screen during multiplayer races. Your exhaust trail becomes teal when your drift dash is fully charged.ĭrift dashes can be further charged, causing your exhaust trail to become orange when overcharged, and pink when fully overcharged. Sections where you would roll the control stick (known as Quick-Time Events) are automated. Over 100 new music tracks added to the game from other Sonic games and SEGA franchises.ĬPU are removed from "Free Race" for true 1v1 competition. ![]() The game loads immediately to the main menu with everything unlocked. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is because Native Access downloads, expands, installs then deletes each library in the process. I was reading that, to do a complete install of Komplete Ultimate Collectors 13, you need at least 78 GB available on your system drive if you plan to install it to an attached drive. With TRIM enabled, it might take as little as 24–28 hours. If you erase a nearly full 2TB sample drive and try to rewrite to it, without TRIM, it might take over 48 hours before you have access to the full capacity. Garbage Collection is a utility contained in the drive's firmware and is a lot slower. TRIM is the OS communicating with the SSD as it tries to ready the cells for new data. When it could be enabled easily in OS 10.10.4, it was interesting to read all the walking back they had to do. Another benefit of the TRIM command is that more space is available for dynamic OP.A long time ago, OWC spread the misinformation that TRIM wasn't necessary. It also reduces the number of write cycles on the flash, increasing the SSDs endurance. With this information, the SSD no longer moves that invalid data during the GC process, eliminating wasted time rewriting invalid data to new flash pages. The SSD takes those addresses and updates its own internal map of its flash memory to mark those locations as invalid. Actually the TRIM command can be thought of as a message from the OS about what previously used addresses on the SSD are no longer holding valid data. It is not a command that forces the SSD to immediately erase data like some people believe. The SSD cannot tell what files have been deleted until the OS uses the same sectors to store new files, but by that time the SSD has already wasted cycles by garbage collecting data that was invalid, but known to the SS.ĭid you know HDDs do not have a Delete command? That is why SSDs need TRIMĪ number of years ago, the storage industry got together and developed a solution between the OS and the SSD by creating a new SATA command called TRIM. The TRIM command is sent by the OS to the SSD to identify what pages of data can be ignored during garbage collection. I talk about how TRIM came into existence and why it is necessary in my blog …. TRIM is beneficial to all SSDs regardless of what kind of garbage collection is used. Foreground GC is harder to achieve and I believe only the SandForce controller is able to do it today In simple terms background garbage collection will increase write amplification (WA) and wear out the SSD sooner. The difference between them is covered in my blog. Some use foreground GC and some use background or idle-time GC. The newly erased block of blank pages is then ready to save new data.Īll NAND Flash-based SSDs use GC. But first all surrounding pages with valid data must be read and then rewritten to blank pages. Random writes put the new data in previously erased pages elsewhere, peppering a block of valid data with “patches of invalid data.” In order to write new data to these patches, the whole block – all 128 pages – must be erased. The complexity of writing data really starts to escalate in the case of random writes replacing previously written data. But a page can only be erased within a group of typically 128 pages called a block. Once a page is written, it cannot be rewritten until it is erased. Trim can be considered an aid to garbage collection.įor the short explanation flash memory is organized in groups of pages where data can be written. OCZ SSDs use a Sandforce controller which has built in foreground garbage collection that delays the need to erase blocks, reducing but not removing the need for TRIM support. ![]() $sudo cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage You can also enable trim manually by looking for all 'Apple' occurrences in the file and patching them in a hex-editor or via terminal: #1. Which checks if the ssd is a 3rd-party or Apple Branded SSD: The Trim Enabler patches the following Kext-File /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage ![]() ![]() ![]() If this difference occurs, use the date in the Date Modified column. That 11 PM to 4PM means you are 7 time zones away, to the west of your. When you view the file details of the file that is on your computer, the date in the Date Modified column may be different from the date in the Date Created column. Otherwise you need to ask your friend what his time zone offset from UTC is. You can use this method to compare the file's converted time to the time of a software update file that is on your computer. If the adjusted time is 12:00, use 12:00 noon. If the adjusted time is 00:00, use 12:00 midnight. If the adjusted time is between 00:01 and 11:59, inclusive, leave the adjusted time as is, and then append A.M. If the offset-adjusted time is between 12:01 and 23:59, inclusive, subtract 12 from the adjusted time, and then append P.M. To make the conversion, follow these steps: For example, if daylight saving time in your time zone is one hour ahead of standard time, add one hour to the offset-adjusted time.Ĭonvert the 24-hour time format to 12-hour time format if your local time uses the 12-hour format. If your time zone participates in daylight saving time, add the time difference to the file's offset-adjusted time when daylight saving time is in effect. UTC time is not adjusted to reflect daylight-saving time. For example, if your local time offset is -8:00, and if the file's UTC time is shown as 00:00 (12:00 midnight) on Monday, the adjusted time is 16:00 on Sunday (4:00 P.M., Sunday). The time setting when adjusted for offset is 06:00 (6:00 A.M.). For example, -5:00 is the local time offset for Eastern Time (US & Canada):Īdd the local time offset to the UTC time.įor example, if your local time offset is -5:00, and if the UTC time is shown as 11:00, add -5 to 11. The local time offset is shown at the start of each local region list item. Below is the formula to convert IST to EST. If your local time zone is not selected, click it in the list of available time zones. Eastern Standard Time (EST) is UTC-5, and Indian Standard Time (IST) is UTC+5. To do this, follow these steps on a Microsoft Windows-based computer:Ĭlick Start, click Run, type timedate.cpl, and then click OK.Ĭlick the Time Zone tab, and then verify that your local time zone is selected. To convert UTC to local time, follow these steps:ĭetermine your local time offset from UTC time. This article describes how to convert UTC to local time to verify that the file that is on your computer is the one that is discussed in the documentation. ![]() Microsoft uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format, an international standard 24-hour timekeeping system, to document the created dates and times of files that are included in a software update. ![]() ![]() ![]() The danger is that throughout our history, government involvement has often come with corruption, waste, and dysfunction. ![]() China’s government support for basic research has enabled it to quickly catch up to U.S. We are locked in an economic battle for leadership in critical emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, advanced telecommunications, and supercomputing. ![]() Today, the same kind of government support is needed to fend off the challenge from China. The 12 major technologies that make possible the iPhone, including GPS, multi-touch screens, and key aspects of cellular technology emerged directly or indirectly from government-funded research. The creation of the internet itself was funded by the government. The government’s visible hand in American business continued, and in more recent times led to the birth of the digital era. Cold War government demand for microchips for missiles and space exploration alone reduced the price of a single chip from $32 in 1961 to $1.25 just 10 years later. Innovations from World War II brought vast improvements to flight technology, medicine, and more. Wars and the Cold War, though they brought great tragedy, were also great accelerators of the technology that business would later capitalize on. Strategically, they were enacted to help block the spread of slave-based plantations to the newly acquired territories. Abraham Lincoln’s Homestead Acts were a boon to small farmers and helped settle the West. Government land sales and grants also boosted business. These projects were simply too large to finance with private capital, but they transformed the nation’s private sector business. The epochal transportation projects in our early history, including the Erie Canal, which defined its era, and the Transcontinental Railroad, which bound the nation together, would not have been possible without government support. After the war, Alexander Hamilton and Tench Coxe led the government’s active promotion of “useful manufactures” and even aided in the theft of secrets from Industrial Revolution pioneers in Britain. The two have been deeply enmeshed, for better or worse, throughout the country’s history.Īmerica’s government actively intervened during the American Revolution, teaching the art of interchangeable parts and financing the expansion of small manufacturers. government and business have always been permeable and blurred. In fact, the government has often played a beneficial role in the market, and the lines between the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() This will determine which one will give you the best rate of return on your cash, how much money to borrow, and what sorts of improvements to make. When you’re considering a purchase, you can compare properties and explore different scenarios. This is particularly useful for a real estate investor who depends on this cash flow to cover living expenses in retirement, for example. You can use CoC Return to analyze multiple properties to determine which one has the highest potential cash return. To put it another way, CoC measures a property’s profitability, telling how much each of the dollars invested will earn you. It factors in ALL inflows and outflows associated with operating a rental property. What is Cash on Cash Return in Real Estate Used For? Total cash invested is the acquisition price of the property plus closing costs and any capital expenditures, less the outstanding mortgage balance. It is important to note that your annual cash flow is after debt service is deducted. The Cash on Cash Return formula is as follows:Ĭash on Cash Return = Annual Pre-Tax Cash Flow / Total Cash Invested Your cash is valuable and, for most people scarce, which makes CoC one of the core rental property calculators for evaluating the strength of your investments. That is, it tells you how much money you get to take home per dollar you’ve put into an investment. We believe it is valuable to forecast this calculation when you’re considering a purchase, and also as a metric to track year-over-year after you own a property. Seasoned real estate investors often use the Cash-on-Cash (CoC) return metric, which compares the cash earned by a property to the cash invested. It is a nominal currency equivalent in value to currency of the COC, an industry-wide term that carriers and governments use for fare construction purposes and air fare calculations.Collect Rent, Earn $150 $150 for Landlord Banking It is the abbreviation for neutral unit of construction. The conversion factors are normally adjusted four times a year. In the new system individual amounts in local currencies are converted to NUC by the use of NUC conversion factors, and the total NUC amount is converted back to the local currency of sale. Neutral Unit of Construction (NUC) The basis of air fare calculations established by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), replaced the Fare Construction Unit (FCU) on 1 July 1989. Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality. Rate of Exchange (ROE) is the rate based on the IATA Clearing House Rate which will be revised at least four times yearly and is to be used for conversion of local currency fares to NUC's and vise versa. Neutral Unit of Construction (NUC) means the unit value equivalent of local currency fares, add-ons, and related charges, derived by converting the same using the IATA rate of exchange. IATA Rate of Exchange means the rate of exchange posted by IATA monthly to convert local currency fares to a Neutral Unit of Construction(NUC) and to convert total NUC amounts to the currency of the country of commencement of transportation. The conversion rates can be based on the IATA NUC or standard bank rates. The airline can define as many currencies as required. International Air Transportation Association. ^ Passenger Services Conference Resolutions Manual. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inside was something of great value, they said, which they would have deposited in the Bank of California except for the late hour. Arnold and Slack turned up one night at Roberts’ San Francisco office, looking weather-beaten and clutching a small leather bag. Roberts, the sort of businessman described in newspapers as prominent, but his was a prominence earned by moving fast and not asking too many questions. The first person the pair approached was George D. Indeed, in the months ahead, as the two men hatched their scheme, Slack played the listless, taciturn foil to the voluble and cunning Arnold. He also had acquired a partner, John Slack, an aptly named older cousin from Kentucky who, like Arnold, had fought in the Mexican War and had gone after gold in 1849. He even plowed through learned works on the subject.īy November of that year, Arnold had acquired a bag of uncut diamonds, presumably taken from his employer, and mixed them with garnets, rubies and sapphires that he likely bought from Indians in Arizona. For a bookkeeper, Arnold, then just past 40, showed a surprising interest in the industrial-grade diamonds that kept the drills running. In 1870, he was working as an assistant bookkeeper for the Diamond Drill Co., a San Francisco drill maker that used diamond-headed bits. Apoorly educated former hatter’s apprentice, Mexican War veteran and gold rush forty-niner, Arnold had spent two decades working in mining operations in the West, making enough money to pay for periodic visits back to Kentucky, where he bought a farm, married, started a family and perhaps stashed a little cash. One of them was Philip Arnold, a Kentuckian born in the same county as Abraham Lincoln. Swelled by the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the San Francisco of 1870 was a city of some 150,000 souls. Not only did it propel to prominence a geologist later befriended and admired by Theodore Roosevelt, it also gave a fed-up American public some hope that honest science could triumph, at least occasionally, over hucksterism and greed. ![]() Accurately described by the San Francisco Chronicle in 1872 as “the most gigantic and barefaced swindle of the age,” the scheme was also noteworthy for the manner of its unraveling and its colorful characters. representative, leading lawyers on both coasts, and the founder of Tiffany & Co. In a report on the phenomenon, a state geologist helpfully recommended that “though it may not pay to hunt for diamonds, yet it always pays to pick them up when you do happen to see them.”Īnd so the stage was set for the Great Diamond Hoax, a brilliantly acted scam by two Kentucky grifters that would embroil, among others, some of California’s biggest bankers and businessmen, a former commander of the Union Army, a U.S. An odd diamond or two had actually turned up during the gold rush, especially near Placerville, California. Stoked by the tall tales of early 19th-century trapper-guides like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson about diamonds, rubies and other gems that could be scooped right off the ground, avaricious dreamers were soon looking for precious stones in Arizona and New Mexico, where the terrain was said to resemble South Africa’s. But in the end, the much-touted venture did not yield enough of the stuff for a single belt buckle.Īt about the same time came news of a diamond rush in South Africa, the third major diamond find known to the world after one near the city of Golconda, India, and an 18thcentury site discovered by the Portuguese in Brazil. Bankers hurried in, miners claimed stakes, investors sought capital in distant cities and surveyors laid out a town nearby. From grubby prospectors washing dirt in a thousand Western streams to bankers and speculators in San Francisco, New York and London, everyone, it seems, embraced the idea that the West’s mountains and riverbeds held an abundance of mineral wealth there for the taking.Īn announcement in the Tucson Weekly Arizonian in April of 1870 catches the mood of the moment: “We have found it! The greatest treasures ever discovered on the continent, and doubtless the greatest treasures ever witnessed by the eyes of man.” Located in the PyramidMountains of New Mexico, the “it” was a new mine dubbed the Mountains of Silver. The rush for gold that began in California in 1848 and for silver in Nevada in 1859 filled the West with people hooked on the Next Big Thing. ![]() ![]() Note that you still need to cite the source of the original idea. If no results are returned, you successfully paraphrased. You can test this by searching the fragment in double quotation marks on Google. If you paraphrased the original text by using different words and/or changing their order, the fragment will no longer be detected by the plagiarism software. 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