![]() ![]() Nicolas Steno (1638-1686) introduced basic principles of stratigraphy, the study of layered rocks, in 1669. Working out Earth’s history depended on realizing some key principles of relative time. The geologic time scale and basic outline of Earth’s history were worked out long before we had any scientific means of assigning numerical age units, like years, to events of Earth history. Explain the relationship between time units and corresponding rock units-chronostratigraphy versus lithostratigraphy.List the eons, eras, and periods of the geologic time scale and explain the purpose behind the divisions.Outline how natural selection takes place as a mechanism of evolution.Define a fossil and describe types of fossils preservation. ![]() Explain how sedimentary sequences can be dated using radioisotopes and other techniques.Explain how scientists know the numeric age of the Earth and other events in Earth history.Explain how carbon-14 forms in the atmosphere and how it is used in dating recent events.Describe how radioisotopic dating is accomplished and list the four key isotopes used.Define an isotope, and explain alpha decay, beta decay, and electron capture as mechanisms of radioactive decay.Apply relative dating principles to a block diagram and interpret the sequence of geologic events.Describe the five principles of stratigraphy.Explain the difference between relative time and numeric time.Perhaps no place on Earth better exemplifies the principles geologists use to determine the ages of rocks than Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park. ![]()
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![]() ![]() BigTech is racing in this direction because even back-of-the-envelope revenue projections for these forms of CivicTech - 311 services, 911 services, parcel delivery services, street and sidewalk cleaning services, and so on - are astronomical. Please take a moment to internalize that. Or if not a single GoogleGlobe, then fragmented de facto monopolies at city scales: New York as AmazonCity, London as GoogleVille, Mumbai as TwitterLand, Cape Town as AppleTown, AlibaBeijing, etc. With CleanApp, users will want to do more than just upload trash or hazard reports they will demand to use CleanApp to expedite a response, to attempt to trace liability they would want to potentially own and trade CleanApp data, they’d want robot responders, and so on.Īt this point, we had another key revelation: the BigTech firm that launched the world’s first functional CleanApp service could effectively monopolize the budding field of CivicTech - potentially moving us towards privatization of citizen-city interactions, on a global scale. Blockchain technology is opening new horizons for economic gain and scientific discovery around ordinary sidewalk and playground litter. CleanApp data can be gleaned from, and can feed into, many new IoT applications where users have concrete material interactions and heightened privacy/security expectations. ![]() Scaled globally, it’s clear that CleanApping is a qualitatively new internet practice, moving far beyond the realm of pure data processing. If we highlight how a global population is already (and increasingly!) using Apple Watches and Google Pixels and Samsung Galaxies “to CleanApp” on a daily basis, then we can reverse-engineer multiple pathways to even more rapid and more harmonized adoption of CleanApp tech. To accelerate adoption of CleanApp standards & practices, we must accept the inevitability of CleanApping as a daily practice and the inevitability of CleanApp as background tech that makes all of our lives better. We had to show everyone how and why they would be CleanApping, and far sooner than they think. It wasn’t enough to show that we should CleanApp. It wasn’t enough to show the world that we could crowdsource litter & hazard data. Over the years, we realized that our message wasn’t strong enough. We thought, if we could just explain how easy it was to apply Wiki principles to crowdsource trash data, then surely everyone would want to do this, because surely everyone hated litter as much as we did.ĬleanApp’s first public campaign, circa early 2013.įive years on, we’re still convinced that everyone hates litter as much as we do (even the litterbugs, believe it or not, who hate seeing their kids eating someone else’s discarded cigarette butts). ![]() Our earliest sites were all Wikis, and we did everything we could to crowdsource answers to the question above. What is the FASTEST & EASIEST way of solving the global litter problem?įrom inception, we designed CleanApp as a dynamic process, evolving with the hardware and software expectations and needs of a generation of digital natives. We spent many sleepless nights thinking about one question: Humans are cool cats, for the most part but we’re a messy species. The same is true in Switzerland, in Brazil, and on the foothills of Kilimanjaro. Trash is everywhere, in the water, on the shores, in the trees and in the sand. Along the riverbank are various signs from different agencies warning you to NOT eat the fish under any circumstances. From afar, the majestic Mississippi is as regal and mighty as ever up close, the litter and pollution are heartbreaking.ĬleanApp in an Augmented Reality (AR) embodiment, coming soon to AR for you.īecause it’s such a large river system, spot cleanups have limited effectiveness, and it’s extremely difficult (though not impossible) to implement trash catchment systems. The river we all romanticize and link to Tom Sawyer and American adventure was now reduced to a dirty runoff drain. Our story started in early 2013 after a walk along the Mississippi River in Memphis. As our profile says, the best way to think of our posture in this budding slice of CleanTech is to picture us as the “Wi-Fi & Bluetooth” of TrashTech and CivicTech. We are now litter-ally eating our own trash.Īt CleanApp, we’re fighting to make sure this is not the new normal.ĬleanApp is a U.S.-based nonprofit that develops open-source standards for litter and hazard reporting applications. By this point microplastics are everywhere, including sea salt, which itself is everywhere. It doesn’t matter if you’re a strict vegan. Warily, lazily, the trash keeps flowing down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, then into the Atlantic, and from there, eventually, to your dinner plate. ![]() ![]() ![]() They move slowly and can’t jump to save their lives, but can deal and absorb more damage. “As you’d imagine, the heavies are the flipside to that – these guys are tanks. On the flipside, they do the least damage with their attacks and are lighter, so are knocked around a whole lot more. They’re also more responsive to control when jetpacking, can fall greater distances without taking damage and even have other perks like longer reach with their ninja ropes. ![]() Scouts are far more agile than any other class, for instance, moving faster and jumping further. The differences are immediately noticeable. The basic worm is now known as the Soldier, and he’s joined by the Scout, Scientist and Heavy. The biggest change to the series, however, is the introduction of classes. It’s a fun idea, but weapons like the water pistol, water bomb and water strike are harder to use effectively than more traditional weapons, and just don’t have the same oomph. Worms that are underwater take damage every turn, but can use new utilities like the plug hole to drain the liquid. Dynamic water has also been introduced to battlefields, letting players do things like blasting a hole in a pocket of water to send it cascading into the map, hopefully washing away some enemy worms in the process. Greater fragility might have made these objects more fun. It’s also frustrating that, say, a tin of lighter fluid or a glass flask can absorb a direct hit from a bazooka. Repositioning them is generally more trouble than it’s worth, however, while damage they’ve taken isn’t as clearly communicated as it could be. These can be moved around with certain abilities (such as telekinesis) and after taking enough damage will either explode or release noxious gas/water, or both. First up, battlefields now feature physics objects, like zippo lighters, glass flasks etc. So what does Revolution bring to the table? A fair bit, actually. ![]() When things go horribly, comically wrong – as they regularly do – the chain of events has to be clear. These battlefields must be readable at a glance they need to be presented cleanly, so that players can focus on how best to use the environment and their remaining cache of weapons and abilities. There’s also a reason that it settled back into 2D after its flirtation with 3D gameplay. In short, there’s a reason Worms has been such an enduring part of the gaming landscape. And yes, you did read that right – ninja ropes. A more evocatively-minded reviewer would no doubt describe a series of gameplay snapshots: worms in jetpacks dropping sticks of dynamite on enemy heads hand grenades setting off chain reactions of explosive barrels which then rain napalm down onto survivors super-weapons destroying huge chunks of the environment rockets arcing across the map near-dead worms teleporting to safety or retreating into the earth worms ninja roping across caverns uzis spraying shotguns blasting old ladies, erm, exploding concrete donkeys… doing massive damage. So that’s the boring, clinical way of putting it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also can connect to FTP, Amazon S3, RackSpace Cloud Files, OpenStack Swift Object Storage, DreamObjects, WebDAV. ProprietaryFTP ClientMacWindowsLinux45 alternatives to ExpanDrive ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access.Suggest and vote on featuresCyberduck Features Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud. Support for scriptingCyberduck supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.Support for FTPSupport for SFTPS3 storage supportCloud browserOnedrive integrationOpenstack swift integrationWebDAV SupportMultiple languagesGoogle Drive integrationOpen API 46ExpanDriveIs this a good alternative? Yes NoCopy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard Paid Open SourceFTP ClientCloud Storage ServiceMacWindows83 alternatives to Cyberduck A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.ago 2 433CyberduckIs this a good alternative? Yes NoCopy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard Freemium.ago 1 GuestIt's freeware and faster than Windows but a little bit slower than NetDrive.Positive comment.ago -1 GuestOn my Windows 10 圆4, NetDrive didn't even installed! RaiDrive is working perfectly!Positive comment.ago -1 Guestwork fine with google team account 7.99Exabytes.This is the way it should have been all along.Positive comment These are in addition to the mapping I have set up in Windows for local drives and servers. I also map to my OneDrive, Dropbox and plan to use it to map to my NAS remotely. It will map up to 8 drives with the free version. ![]() ago 0 GuestI'm running it on Win 7/32, a Win 8.1/64 and a Win 10/64 and it is flawless.I just tried RaiDrive and it works great!Top positive comment ago 0 blp042I have been looking for a product like this.Suggest and vote on featuresRaiDrive Features Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.Mounting drivesSupport for FTPUpload directly to Google DriveMount FTP drivesGoogle Drive integrationSupport for SFTPSync with DropboxGoogle photos integrationMedia StreamingAndroid Sync RaiDrive vs NetDrive Almost everyone thinks RaiDrive is a great alternative to NetDrive.GuestSimple, stable, easy to useTop positive comment No need for synchronization and no need for web browsers!. ProprietaryFTP ClientFile Sync ToolWindows43 alternatives to RaiDrive Mount NAS, Router, Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox to a network drive on File Explorer.ProprietaryFTP ClientMacWindowsRemote storage tool that lets you access your cloud files as if they're on a local disk.Learn more about NetDriveNetDrive info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to NetDrive41 FiltersWindows + FreeFreeOpen SourceLinuxMacShow more filters 62RaiDriveIs this a good alternative? Yes NoCopy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard Freemium.Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of NetDrive. Suggest changesThis page was last updated NetDrive 59 Paid Other great apps like NetDrive are Cyberduck, ExpanDrive, Koofr and Air Explorer.NetDrive alternatives are mainly Cloud Storage Services but may also be FTP Clients or File Sync Tools. The best alternative is RaiDrive, which is free. There are more than 25 alternatives to NetDrive for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Online / Web-based and Android. NetDrive Alternatives: 25+ FTP Clients and Cloud Storage Services | AlternativeTo (function()() Skip to main contentSkip to site searchPlatformsCategoriesOnlineWindowsAndroidMaciPhoneLinuxiPadAndroid TabletProductivitySocialDevelopmentBackupRemote Work & StudyLoginSign up HomeFile SharingNetDriveAlternativesNetDrive AlternativesNetDrive is described as 'Remote storage tool that lets you access your cloud files as if they're on a local disk' and is a popular FTP Client in the file sharing category. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then resume the song by hitting play again and when you find your ending point pause the song and hit Set to finish. Select the song you prefer and click on the Select option to load.Īfter choosing the desired song, you are able to play the song and pause it at the place from where you want your ringtone to start and hit Set to start. After that, a window will pop up and list all songs on your iOS device. Select from device: If the favorite songs are stored on your iPhone, just hit on this option. Select from computer: To import and customize a song on your computer as an iPhone ringtone, click on this option to find the song and click on the Open option to load the music. ![]() Now you can find and add your favorite music from your computer or iPhone to Syncios Mobile Manager and then get started to creating ringtones. Step 4 Select A Favorite Song from Computer or iPhone for Making the New Ringtone Once your iPhone is detected by Syncios successfully, click on the Toolbox tab on the top menu bar and then select the Ringtone Maker. Step 3 Navigate to the Ringtone Maker Function If you encountered any problems during the connection process, simply click here to get help. Step 2 Get your iPhone Connected to the Computer with A USB Cable If you are a Windows user, run Syncios Mobile Manager by clicking on the Mobile Manager option on the main interface of Syncios Toolkit. Step 1 Install and Run Syncios Mobile Manager on Your Computerįirstly, download and install the proper version of the program from the above download button. Here are the detailed steps on how to make iPhone ringtones using your favorite songs. How to Make Ringtones for iPhone with Syncios Mobile Manager ![]() ![]() ![]() Using the Fahrenheit to Celsius formula: Celsius (☌) = (Fahrenheit - 32) / 1.8, these examples show how to convert a temperature in Fahrenheit to Celsius. How to convert Rankine to Celsius The temperature T in degrees Celsius (C) is equal to the temperature T in Rankine (R) times 9/5, minus 459.67: T(C) ( T(R) - 491.67) × 5/9 Example Convert 300 degrees Rankine to degrees Celsius: T(C) (300R - 491.67) × 5/9 -106. From these dates, it's probable that Anders Celsius invented this conversion formula. Here is an example of how this calculator works: Let’s say we want to convert 500 SCFM to CFM at 60☏ temperature and 16 psi pressure. Literature indicates that the Fahrenheit scale was invented in 1724 and the Celsius (Centigrade) scale invented in 1742. In general, it is medically accepted that normal body temperature ranges from: 36.5 ° C (97.7 ° F) to 37.5 ° C (99.5 ° F). I am unsure if it was Anders Celsius or Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit who created this conversion formula. The human body temperature information and conversion tables include normal, high and low readings and fever readings from degrees Celcius to Fahrenheit. The temperature scales used in this formula were created by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 – 1736), and Anders Celsius (1701–1744). Temperature scales are usually named after the person who created them. ![]() ![]() If you are using this formula for your own conversions, you can check your result with the Fahrenheit to Celsius calculator. If required, there are worked examples below which use this formula to show how to convert a temperature in Fahrenheit to a temperature in Celsius.Īs with any math calculation and conversion, it's good practice to double check your results. Temperature Conversion Formula Table Celsius (C), C (), C(95) + 32 Fahrenheit, (F 32) × 59, F Kelvin, K 273.15, (K 273.15) 9/5 + 32. Alternatively, since 9/5 1.8 we can say F equals C multiplied by 1.8. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's $2.2 million in net after-tax earnings per month. Therefore after taxes she will have around… $26.65 million She will only be on the hook for around 37% to the IRS.
![]() When you have one face done to your satisfaction you hit “Next” to proceed to the others until you’re done. In this case it is up to you to tell PP12 whether it is a boy/girl or man/woman and then it will retouch each face individually. I loaded a group photo of seven people into the software and it went to work, identifying each face, even the one that had a graduation tassel cutting half of a face off. ![]() Then I figured I’d really give PP12 a workout. The software correctly identified the couple as a male and female and then proceeded to go to work retouching them, again hands off. Next, I loaded up a few images of a couple for batch processing. ![]() Before you exit the software you of course have the option of manually going in and making any changes you desire. The toolbar on the right will also show you status updates and let you know if any of the files failed. The blue dot means that the image has been located and mapped out the yellow dot signifies processing is done and then a little square that looks like a TV appears to indicate the image has been saved. The progress is monitored in real time via a progress window or by watching the dots that appear in the top right of each image. First, it located and marked the key areas of the face, then it processed each file, saving them to a folder I designated. PP12 then proceeded to run through a three-step process. Not wanting to wait for hundreds of faces to be transformed into blemish-free zones, I put five images from a recent high school senior photo shoot into a folder and loaded them up. Last year I had to retouch hundreds of portraits for a high school yearbook in a very short time so I can tell you that batch processing is a major feature for me. Up until now I believe there was only one other generally available software program that offered batch retouching. The biggest change, in the Studio Max Edition only, is batch processing. You do need to designate male/female/girl/boy and click on each head to process. You can see that even in a group of seven people PortraitPro 12 managed to identify all the faces in the image. In this review I’ll focus on three main upgrade areas to PP12 (Studio Max Edition): batch processing, gender/age detection, and face relighting. If you’d like some background on the many aspects of the software, type its name into the search box at and read my past reviews. You can set as many defaults as you like, such as Female, Male, Boy, etc. ![]() You can make adjustments to face shaping, eye brightness, teeth whitening, and more. The software then magically goes about retouching the faces one at a time. To get started in PortraitPro 12 (PP12), you open an image with one or several people in it and the software automatically analyzes and outlines each face. PortraitPro 12 can operate as a stand-alone and a Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture plug-in. I’ve been using PortraitPro since the first edition and now the company behind this popular retouching software, Anthropics Technology, has released Version 12, which includes a variety of updates, both major and minor. I also used the default settings on a few high school senior girls and both they and their parents liked the finished results. Since this is a model and not a portrait client, I had no issue with the face sculpting and Chantal Marquis didn’t either. PortraitPro 12 Studio Max Edition does a great job using the default settings. ![]() ![]() ![]() But this darker look has been further refined, offering a more satisfying, Mojave-friendly appearance. This NTFS driver supports macOS ranging from High Sierra to Ventura. Truth be told, NTFS for Mac 15 already offered its own Light or Dark Mode preference last year, along with the ability to use the system appearance setting alongside the dark menu bar and Dock option in macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Download and install iBoysoft NTFS for Mac on your Mac device for free. IDGįorget about drag and drop-Paragon NTFS for Mac features an optional menu bar app that makes it a snap to unmount any volume. It allows you to write, edit, copy, move, delete files on NTFS. While there are likely to be more than a few apps at launch yet to be updated in the wake of Apple’s new “lights out” approach, Paragon NTFS for Mac won’t be one of them, assuming you update to version 15.3.42 or later, that is. Free Download Paragon NTFS for Mac full version standalone offline installer for macOS. With the release of macOS 10.14 Mojave, Mac owners across the galaxy will be turning to the dark side-that is, toggling on the newĭark Mode in System Preferences. A free update for owners of NTFS for Mac 15 (and a mere 20 bucks for new buyers), this so-called “Mojave Edition” isn’t a completely new version, but rather improves upon the previous release in a few small ways. ![]() Now Paragon has upgraded NTFS for Mac with full support for the latest macOS 10.14 Mojave. More importantly, version 15 restored the ability to format NTFS disks directly in Paragon’s own software-functionality which was limited to Apple’s Disk Utility in version 14. Step 1: Download, install and launch iBoysoft NTFS for Mac on your Mac. NTFS for Mac 15 debuted a fresh new look for the popular utility that made it easier to use, along with a convenient, optional menu bar app to unmount volumes. Tutorial to mount NTFS drive on Mac with iBoysoft NTFS for Mac. Supported NTFS Features: All NTFS versions are supported (from Windows NT 3.1 to Windows 10) Compressed files and folders Sparse files Files and folders with security permissions Supported operating systems: macOS 13 Ventura macOS 12 Monterey macOS 11 Big Sur Supported Languages: English German French Italian Spanish Russian Korean. It may be designed for cross-platform use with Windows-formatted storage, but Paragon NTFS for Mac features a Mojave-friendly user interface designed for Apple fans. ![]() ![]() ![]() What this means is that at a target resolution of 4K, the Quality mode runs at 1440p, and the Performance mode at 1080p, with the other modes somewhere in-between.įSR supports any resolution, it's not limited to 4K and 1440p, and the scale factors will apply in the same way. It's only fair to directly compare them, and we'll do that later in this article.įSR offers 4 quality modes: Ultra Quality, Quality, Balanced and Performance.Įach has a distinct scale factor: 1.3x for Ultra Quality, 1.5x for Quality, 1.7x for Balanced and 2.0x for Performance. In practical terms, both technologies have been designed and created to achieve the same goal: improve gaming performance by rendering at a lower resolution, but at minimal loss of visual quality through upscaling. ![]() Some people will compare the way FSR works to the way DLSS works and might conclude that FSR is not an actual competitor to DLSS because they work in fundamentally different ways. That means popular mainstream GPUs like the GTX 1060 and GTX 1660 can take advantage of FSR. The second is that by not using AI, AMD is hoping to achieve broader support and from the get go it can support AMD GPUs from the Radeon RX 480 era (2016) and newer, as well as Nvidia GPUs from the GeForce 10 series and newer. FSR is a single compute shader with simple data inputs, and is open source technology. By optimizing each game, you can make sure only the intended portion of the game is run at a reduced render resolution.ĪMD has taken the approach of spatial upscaling for two reasons. If FSR was applied to the final frame output from a game, many elements (like the HUD) would be upscaled, likely with artifacts and other visual problems. This is because FSR needs to be run before the final effects stage in the pipeline, so before the HUD is rendered, and before things like film grain are implemented. There is only one input to the algorithm, which is the lower resolution frame.ĭespite being a simpler technique, FSR still requires per-game integration. AMD calls their technique an "advanced edge reconstruction algorithm," which is combined with a sharpening pass to create the final image. However, with less data to work with, spatial upscaling algorithms need to be really good at figuring out how to reconstruct the image, and traditionally this is where they've fallen short.ĪMD hasn't gone into great detail on how their algorithm works, but they tell us this is not a simple rehash of bilinear upscaling, which is the 'standard' method for spatial upscaling. This greatly simplifies the algorithm - spatial upscaling does not rely on data from multiple frames, or motion vectors, which makes it easier to integrate into games as there are less data inputs. AMD tells us that AI is not used at any stage of the FSR process (so FSR is not the technology described in that patent that's been floating around). Instead of using temporal upscaling, FSR relies exclusively on spatial upscaling. DLSS has gone through more than one iteration, and right now at version 2.0, it's a major improvement over the initial release and it's also gathered decent game support after much work from Nvidia.įSR takes a different approach. Temporal upscaling means data is accumulated from multiple frames and combined into the final image, with the AI component running on Nvidia's Tensor cores to assist with this reconstruction. ![]() The most prominent form of this today is Nvidia's DLSS, the company's proprietary AI-based temporal upscaling solution that runs on GeForce RTX GPUs. ![]() Reducing the rendering resolution improves performance substantially, and if the upscaling technique is good enough, this can be achieved while preserving most of the image detail. Like DLSS and checkerboard rendering, the concept is that you can reduce the game's rendering resolution, and use an algorithm to upscale the image to your target resolution, typically the native resolution of your monitor. What is FSR?įSR is an upscaling technology that's designed to improve the performance of games at minimal loss to visual quality. We've got a stack of quality comparisons at different resolutions, performance benchmarks across several GPUs, and comparisons to other upscaling technologies. This article is going to be a comprehensive overview of FSR. It's taken AMD a long time to prepare their own upscaling feature, but starting today AMD is ready to compete and now it needs to bring support for FSR in more games. Make no mistake, FidelityFX Super Resolution (or FSR, for short) is AMD's direct competitor to Nvidia's DLSS, a feature that's increasingly become a key selling point for GeForce graphics cards in the last 18 months. ![]() |
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