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![]() Limited Time Offer: Earn 100,000 Bonus Marriott Bonvoy Points after spending $4,000 in purchases on your new Card in your first 3 months of Card Membership.And then, once travel resumes, Platinum cardholders can once again enjoy the Centurion Lounge, especially since the network will be bigger and better than before. The updates to The Platinum Card® from American Express include added credits for streaming and wireless telephone carriers for the rest of the year. In recent years, the issuer has expanded the Dallas, Miami and Seattle locations.Īlong with the expansion coming to the Centurion Lounge network, Amex has sweetened the deal for would-be travelers currently stuck at home. Hopefully, this isn't just a one-off, and Amex is also considering expanding some of its other popular locations too. Nonetheless, this is great news for travelers who frequent LAS airport. ![]() Related: The ultimate guide to the Amex Centurion Lounge The latter two were scheduled to open in the first half of 2020, but the coronavirus will likely throw a wrench in those plans. ![]() The expanded and redesigned LAS location joins three other outposts that are currently under construction - Denver (DEN), London Heathrow (LHR) and New York (JFK). In the meantime, if you're really missing your favorite lounge cocktail or appetizer, you can check out Amex's dedicated site for bringing the Centurion Lounge to your home. The good news is that once the network reopens, the Las Vegas location will be able to do so too, even while construction progresses. Work starting on the LAS Centurion Lounge (Photo courtesy of a reader)Īt the moment, all Centurion Lounges are currently closed, and there's no word yet on when they'll be reopened. ![]() ![]() ![]() Time limited licenses are serving the purpose of a demo. Prices are 125$ for an all new full version of 4.0 (August 2016), 80 $ for upgrading from SBP 2.5xx, 40$ for upgrading from SBP older than 2.5xx, 25$ for a secondary license, and da iscounted price model for time-limited licenses, starting with 10$ for a single month, 25$ for 3 months, and 40$ for 1 year. Since release of SBP 3.0, time-limited licenses are being sold as well, for example 1-month, 3-months and 1-year licenses. ![]() Instead of a demo, there is the possibility to try a Guest Licence. Regarding System Specs for version 4.x - IMPORTANT!. Existing electronic terrain databases can be imported via DTED and Shape™ files. Scenarios developed with Steel Beasts offer the instructor a high degree of control while maintaining a relatively simple and intuitive user interface. A possible additional benefit is that soldiers throughout their career will be using the same simulation at different stages, but in a different context – without having to adapt to a new simulation system (where the “natural” user interface like control handles and control panels cannot be provided). This way Steel Beasts Professional offers our customers a very high degree of flexibility in its use, and its integration into the training continuum. The simulation can be integrated with battlefield management systems (to stimulate them with a dynamic tactical environment), with other simulations (via HLA/DIS gateway, or by custom gateways like WISE Connectivity), with traditional containerized crew trainer cabins, or appended to actual combat vehicles. ![]() The software is delivered with integrated editors for terrain and scenarios, and is suitable for both individual and collective education and training in a networked environment. Steel Beasts Professional can handle up to twelve sides per scenario including neutral forces, noncombatants/civilian population, enemy factions, and a dynamic change of attitudes/allegiance.
![]() ![]() This property advises that enhanced cleaning and guest safety measures are currently in place. Cash is not accepted.įor guests' safety, the property includes a carbon monoxide detector, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, and a first aid kit in each accommodation. This property accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB International, and Carte Blanche. Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates). The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession. This property is managed by a professional host. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges. Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. This property welcomes guests of all sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQ friendly).Ĭharges for extra guests may apply and vary according to property policy.Ī cash deposit, credit card, or debit card for incidental charges and government-issued photo identification may be required upon check-in.Contact information can be found on your booking confirmation. This property affirms that it adheres to the cleaning and disinfection practices of SafeStay (AHLA - USA).Guests are provided with hand sanitizer.Disinfectant is used to clean the property commonly-touched surfaces are cleaned with disinfectant between stays bed sheets and towels are laundered at a temperature of at least 60☌/140☏.This property advises that enhanced cleaning and guest safety measures are currently in place.Onsite safety features include a carbon monoxide detector, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, and a first aid kit.The credit card used at check-in for incidentals must be in the name of the primary guest who made the reservation.Charges or special cancellation policies for group reservations may apply (more than 8 rooms for the same property/stay dates).Certain requests may come with additional charges. Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in and can't be guaranteed.A cash deposit, credit card, or debit card for incidental charges, as well as a government-issued photo ID, may be required at check-in.Charges for extra guests may apply and vary depending on the property's policy. ![]() This property is managed by a professional host. ![]() Room optionsĭetails about charges, deposits, or other important information:Īdditional information about polices, regulations, and more: Other amenities at this boutique hotel include express check-out, free newspapers, and laundry facilities. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can assist with tours or tickets, securing valuables, and luggage storage. Valet parking is offered for USD 62 per night. Property featuresĪt Onyx Boston Downtown, guests have access to a 24-hour gym, free WiFi in public areas, and conference space. Other amenities include minibars, safes, and ironing boards. Beds are dressed in premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers and designer toiletries. Guests can expect free WiFi and 46-inch flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Continental breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM. You can enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge or visit the onsite restaurant for a bite to eat. This 112-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant, a 24-hour gym, and free in-room WiFi. ![]() Located in Downtown Boston, Onyx Boston Downtown is within a 5-minute walk of TD Garden and within 15 minutes of other popular attractions like Boston Harbor. ![]() ![]() ![]() The $399 6-core Ryzen 5 7600X has a 4.7 GHz base and 5.3 GHz boost clock. The 7950X vies with Intel’s Core i9-12900K for now, but it will eventually face the Core i9-13900K that will come with eight additional efficiency cores for a total of 24 cores. This chip has a 170W TDP rating and a max power draw of 230W, the highest power consumption of any Ryzen chip yet. The chip comes with 16 MB of L2 cache, a doubling over the prior-gen models, and 64MB of 元 cache. The $699 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X comes with a 4.5 GHz base and 5.7 GHz boost, with the latter being the highest boost frequency of the four initial Ryzen 7000 processors. The company also worked on improving its power delivery to unleash more performance, which we’ll dive into a bit later. Conversely, Intel has said it will increase its chip pricing due to economic factors, so we’ll have to wait to see its official pricing to judge the 7600X’s positioning.ĪMD didn’t increase core counts with the Ryzen 7000 family - instead, it focused on architectural and process node enhancements that deliver more performance per core. AMD also kept the entry-level pricing at the same $299 with the Ryzen 5 7600X, which is a high bar for entry to the Ryzen 7000 family. The 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 7950X is $100 less than the original launch pricing of the Ryzen 9 5950X. Be aware that the Raptor Lake specifications in the above table are not yet official. This is how Ryzen 7000 stacks up against Intel’s existing Alder Lake chips, along with information we’ve collected about Intel’s yet-to-be-fully-announced Raptor Lake. You can see learn about this design in our Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 all we know article.ĪMD Ryzen 7000 Specifications and Pricing (Be sure to check out our full boost, thermals, power, and IPC testing after the benchmarks.) Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Specifications and PricingĪs a reminder, the Ryzen 7000 processors come with the N5 TSMC 5nm process node for the core compute die (CCD) and the TSMC 6nm process for the I/O Die (IOD). In the meantime, here’s how the current chips stack up. ![]() Nevertheless, Intel claims its own impressive performance gains of 15% faster single-threaded, 41% faster threaded, and a 40% ‘overall’ performance gain, meaning we’ll see a close battle for desktop PC leadership. Ryzen 7000 takes the lead in convincing fashion, but its real competitor, Raptor Lake, doesn’t come until next month. You do end up with more performance-per-watt, though. AMD also dialed up power consumption drastically to boost performance, inevitably resulting in more heat and a more power-hungry system. That muddies the value proposition due to the expensive overall platform costs. However, as impressive as they are, they aren’t perfect: The Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series has a high $300 entry-level price point and only supports pricey DDR5 memory instead of including less-expensive DDR4 options like Intel. The Ryzen 7000 chips also come loaded with other new tech, like a new Radeon RDNA 2 iGPU for basic display output and support for AVX-512 and AI instructions.īoth chips beat Intel’s flagship in gaming. AMD has even developed its own EXPO DDR5 memory profiles for overclocking, rivaling Intel’s XMP standard. ![]() ![]() In addition, the new platform comes replete with support for the latest interfaces, like DDR5 and PCIe 5.0, largely matching Intel’s connectivity options. AMD’s new chips drop into the new AM5 socket, which the company has committed to supporting until 2025, on 600-series motherboards. Paired with vastly improved power delivery, which comes courtesy of a new platform, AMD’s process and architecture advances deliver truly explosive performance gains. ![]() ![]() ![]() This tediousness extends to the building of the bridges as well, and though it isn’t game breaking, it can be frustrating in longer play sessions. In a game as finicky as Bridge Constructor Portal, too many disparate obstacles can prove to make stages drag on while earlier stages only take about ten(ish) minutes to clear, later ones can take upwards of an hour. Even so, later stages are a little busier than we’d like, and they can tend to cross the line into tediousness. Things such as propulsion gel, sentry drones, weighted companion cubes, and the titular portals are all present and accounted for, and the game makes sure to take time to introduce each new concept in a measured and manageable way. Though the levels are straightforward at first, it doesn’t take too long for all sorts of obstacles from the Portal games to be introduced. This helps to make the game much more accessible to players of all skill levels, and we appreciated that the game doesn’t rush the player, but also doesn’t coddle them. If this engineering mindset doesn’t come naturally to you, a handy guide is always available to explain some broad techniques that will likely help. Regardless of how many girders or cables you throw at it, a poor design will always result in this outcome, which means you must apply basic architectural techniques and think about things from a problem-solving perspective. Though objects will remain static when you’re in build mode, physics are applied as soon as you test it with a forklift, and any flaws in your design will likely result in watching the forklift careen into an acid pit. If you fail - and you will fail a lot - it’s a simple matter of making adjustments to the construct and hitting the drive button again to see if you can scrape by this time.īridge Constructor Portal excels in teaching you the relatively complex mechanics of this through a well-paced tutorial that ensures you’ve properly learned the concept. Each stage gives you a limited number of anchor points to work with, and as you work your way through the 60 stages, you must become increasingly more creative in your approach. You’re given an infinite amount of girders and cables, and must build bridges that are stable enough to guide a forklift (or many) through all manner of hazards. Gameplay in Bridge Constructor Portal is simple, though not easy to master. The end product is something that doesn’t quite hit the same highs as the series it was inspired by, but still does a great job in its own right. Bridge Constructor Portal is a puzzle game at heart, though here it trades first-person shooting for a more methodical approach that employs many similar mechanics. Valve’s Portal series is one that most Nintendo gamers likely never expected to see on their console, yet here we are with an oddly inventive spinoff that makes a surprising amount of sense. ![]() ![]() Those giving advice may not have a medical background and are therefore unable to give an accurate diagnosis. The researchers highlighted 500 posts, and focused on how people were requesting a crowd-diagnosis, and even wanting a second opinion after going to a medical professional.Īlthough it may be appealing (and convenient) for people to search for help anonymously, and the internet has become a great source of information, medical professionals have noted that this way of seeking answers has its drawbacks. Researchers obtained all the posts in a subreddit forum, r/STD, from 2010 to 2019, which Healthline notes totaled almost 17,000. According to Healthline, a study from the University of California, San Diego, published in the journal JAMA, has found that thousands of people are using Reddit for a “crowd-diagnosis” for their sexually transmitted disease (STD). ![]() Your status doesn’t make you 'clean' or 'dirty.' Everyone deserves to have their sex life be healthy, happy, and free from shame and stigma."Īlthough there are several tips from professionals on how to make testing less scary-for example, remembering that STIs are common and treatable-people are also turning to the internet for help. "It’s important to remember that having an STI doesn’t make you any less good, valuable, or worthy of love. "There are still a lot of myths and misunderstandings about having an STI," June Gupta, MSN, at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told Bustle. There is a large number of people who do not seek treatment for STIs, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimating that undiagnosed STIs “cause 24,000 women to become infertile each year.” Fear of STIs is a real thing, and the stigma surrounding these infections often prevents people from getting regular screenings. ![]() According to American Sexual Health Association, “one in two sexually active persons will contract an STI by age 25.” Researchers have also estimated that at least 80 percent of people who are sexually active will have an HPV infection at some point in their lifetime. Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes-we’ve all heard the names of common sexually transmitted diseases, yet it is a topic that many people are uncomfortable discussing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pick up orders have no service fees, regardless of non-Instacart+ or Instacart+ membership. Instacart+ membership waives this like it would a delivery fee. Instacart pickup cost: - There may be a "pickup fee" (equivalent to a delivery fee for pickup orders) on your pick up order that is typically $1.99 for non-Instacart+ members. With an optional Instacart+ membership, you can get $0 delivery fee on every order over $35 and lower service fees too. 100% of your tip goes directly to the shopper who delivers your order. ![]() It's a great way to show your shopper appreciation and recognition for excellent service. Tipping is optional but encouraged for delivery orders. Type: Premixed cocktail, margarita Brand: Rancho La Gloria Region: California ABV: 13.9 Flavor Flavor Experience: Tart, sweet and juicy peach Suggestions. ![]() Orders containing alcohol have a separate service fee. Rancho La Gloria Ready To Drink Blueberry Margarita 100 Agave. Service fees vary and are subject to change based on factors like location and the number and types of items in your cart. Rancho La Gloria Mango Margarita Ready To Drink Wine Cocktail. Fees vary for one-hour deliveries, club store deliveries, and deliveries under $35. Here's a breakdown of Instacart delivery cost: - Delivery fees start at $3.99 for same-day orders over $35. ![]() ![]() ![]() Piranha Bytes has just opted for virtually no information, which leaves way too many avenues to waste the player’s time. You can point the player in the right direction without giving away every detail or nuance of a game system. Its communication is archaic in the worst ways possible. Could the game do a better job at explaining this to you, making sure you understand the importance of your decisions in your character’s progression? Absolutely. It’s in this sense of agency and choice that Elex II feels at its best. It feels like there are actual consequences to your build choices, rather than just being an easy jack of all trades like in a lot of other modern RPG games. There are stat requirements for each perk, weapon, armour piece and other items, which all play a very vital role in how you build your character. The real importance of your stat allocation has to do with the skill tree and gear. With numbers as low as this, there is no real point to these attribute bonuses outside of giving the player a microsystem that they should ignore, but putting it in big bold letters that make the player think it is important. How much extra health, you ask? One point. For instance, you can invest five points into Vitality to gain extra health. These attributes only have bonuses tied to them for every 5 points invested. There is, of course, a level system which awards attribute points that you can invest in various stats. Elex II tries to walk a fine line between all these different character building systems, and does so pretty poorly. Some games do a better job of this by allowing for the progression path to be skill or perk based, like in Skyrim. It’s hard to really revolutionise a stat system in a genre that has been so oversaturated by more contemporary design that focuses on gear score for stats rather than the specific attributes of your character. One of the biggest problems Elex II has is in its stat system. There were points where I would accidentally start another topic, see that topic through and then leave, only to be reminded that I had the wrong conversation and so I’d need to walk all the way back to that NPC to try and get the right string of dialogue choices to progress the quest. This game breaks that logic in the worst way, as you can be having one conversation with someone and then interrupt that conversation with an entirely different topic with the same person. There are a certain set of rules and flow that these dialogue trees must adhere to, and the games are better for it. Look at The Witcher 3 or The Elder Scrolls. In most games, once you start a dialogue tree, a lot of it follows a pretty logical path of conversation and you get meaningful information from it. I’m not sure if it’s just bad translation/localisation, but a lot of it just misses the mark, both in terms of delivery and coherence. This isn’t a matter of bad lines forcing bad delivery, because even the worst lines can come out okay with decent voice actors (look at vanilla Destiny), but this is a matter of both things being bad. To make matters worse, the voice acting is just…bad. To attempt to help portray a story in which the presentation goes all over the place, there are dialogue trees that are also an absolute mess, filled with poorly written dialogue that you probably think would never come out of someone’s mouth. This very quickly pulls you out of it as it all feels disconnected from the events of the game itself. For instance, in one of the opening areas, there is a grassy, vegetated cliffside that you are running across and when the pre-rendered cutscene takes over, it’s all dry, craggy and devoid of vegetation. I’m not sure, I was thrown off by how the pre-rendered cutscenes have somehow been set in locations that are completely different to the ones you end up playing in. All I could tell you is that it follows Jax, the guy from the previous game, and the world is still in a terrible state where these weird alien things have shown up on the planet or something. It starts with an animated story dump which makes so many cuts that it ends up not setting much up at all. Hell, even if you have followed it, it’s very easy to get lost because the presentation is so inconsistent. Elex II is a direct sequel to the original 2017 action RPG, so if you haven’t followed the story, it’s very easy to get lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() With its minimalistic interface it takes up just as much space as you want it to. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Keep your inspiration forever at hand by setting PureRef to always stay on top of your workspace. It allows most video websites to pop out.Īlso if you use one note for work or school I use an extension called one note web clipper. The way I have found around it is with an extension called pipifier. ![]() You might notice that it doesn’t work with websites like Netflix or other video streaming services. Where the video pops out and you can resize it to what ever size you want. Apple added this handy feature to Safari in iOS 14, but it hasn’t always worked everywhere. There are some extensions that are useful just on Mac Safari including: PiPifier. Previously a plug-in for the desktop version of Safari, PiPifier does one thing and it does it well: restoring picture-in-picture functionality to videos across the web. You can use iCloud Passwords in Chrome for Windows. In youtube you can right click (control + click) you can make the video play in picture in picture mode. OK, this is a niche thing, but on Windows, this synchronizes Chrome or Firefox Windows to Apple bookmarks. I use an password vault app called lastpass it works on every device I use on a daily basis Use Chrome to Get YouTube Picture in Picture You can use Picture-in-Picture mode on Chrome if you cannot run it on YouTube. After installing the app, you’ll need to follow the on-screen instructions to enable picture-in-picture mode on YouTube. PiPifier is the extension I use as a picture-in-picture tool. All you need to do is install the PiPifer app from App Store. I’ve tried heaps of different ones and that’s the only one that I have found that consistently works Also, until recently, Safari used a lot less power than Chrome, although I dont know if. You mentioned how Adblock doesn’t work very well on safari how it lets ads through it is because the creators of Adblock allow advertisers be placed on a white list if they pay the creators of AdblockĪdblocker: ublock origin it works really well and doesn’t seem to affect browsing speed. Once that is installed and implemented into Safari, when you have clicked on the channel that you want to watch, you can then click the PiPifier icon on the Safari Extension Bar and from there, you should be able to watch. ![]() Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.I have started to use safari because of the lower memory and cpu usage. To get Picture-in-Picture working on Locast, you must download the free PiPifier Safari extension from the Mac App Store. Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository 一个用于在 macOS 上平滑你的鼠标滚动效果或单独设置滚动方向的小工具, 让你的滚轮爽如触控板 | A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on macOS iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things. Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. The overlay controls appear on the video list page of a show. It is actually an issue with Chrome and Firefox and I have reported it and am working on a hack to fix it anyways. But the overlay controls ALWAYS work so it doesn't break anything. □ Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Sometimes the hotkey for fullscreen will lock up, but only on Funimation videos. Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions When comparing PiPifier and Keka you can also consider the following projects: ![]() |
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