It may have been the hangover talking, but my food was so amazing I don’t think I stopped to speak, breathe, or even take a drink. Not big on Sangria, but I’ll admit that was the food option I wanted most. The Bloody Mary was stacked with, of course, celery, olives, peppers, cheese, sausage, and last but not least- a slider and onion rings. We all opted for the Mimosas (there is also a Screwdriver option with the same toppings) and we were presented with a massive mason jar complete with 2 mini breakfast sandwiches, a freshly baked cinnamon roll, tater tots, and a stick of sliced fruit, with a lukewarm glass of PBR as a complimentary appetizer (woo…). The Sangria option features all the ingredients to make fajitas, mini taquitos, and fruit, right there on top of your drink. Not to mention the huge glass of PBR (ugh) they give you while you wait- after finishing everything, you won’t need to eat or drink more – fuck brunch, indeed.įood/Drinks: Anvil offers a complete brunch menu separate from the Fuck Brunch drink/food options, but of course we wanted to snap pics of our fancy mimosas just like everyone else, so we focused solely on the Fuck Brunch menu. By now most have seen the pictures of “Fuck Brunch”- mason jars filled with enough alcohol to take the edge off your hangover and piled high with food to settle your stomach. One Saturday morning we ventured slightly out of the bubble and took a trip to Deep Ellum to check out Anvil Pub.
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Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.” Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene.Ī tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice-for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Use common sense when reading about a book or author you don't wanted spoiled.Are we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. Comments with spoilers will not be moderated, and hidden spoilers are discouraged in discussions about individual books. The cognitive slurry of generative AI adds no value and will be treated as spam. Users come here for the opinions of and discussion with other human beings. Polls are not allowed without prior permission from the moderators.Ħ: Tag digital book deals with and in post titleĮxample of an acceptable post title: Such-and-such book by so-and-so is $2.99! Text posts containing an image link must include a text explanation of the context around the image. This means no posting, linking, or recommending your own content, or any content produced by a person or company you're affiliated with. This includes, but is not limited to, hate speech and fighting about politics. All mod actions will be taken with these goals in mind. Our guidelines were designed to foster a diverse and welcoming discussion community while avoiding drama, flamewars, and promotional activity. Say "hi" at our sister subreddits- SpecArt and SF Videos-and join our reader-managed Goodreads group. The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. Canticle for Leibowitz Rendezvous with Rama Princess of Mars Altered Carbon Foundation Blindsight Accelerando Old Man's War Armor Cities in Flight A Brave New World Children of Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Dhalgren Enders Game Gateway A Fire Upon the Deep Neuromancer A Clockwork Orange Ringworld Diamond Age Lord of Light Hyperion Startide Rising Terminal World The Forever War Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hunger Games Left Hand of Darkness Man in the High Castle The Martian Chronicles The Player of Games The Shadow of the Torturer Sirens of Titan The Stars my Destination To Your Scattered Bodies GoĪ place to discuss published Speculative Fiction We need to pick the message id from the start event and also include all events that have this message id and occur before the end event.Īdditionally, the delivery id makes up the transaction. As you can see from the log excerpt above, qmail transactions start with new msg and end with end msg. You can then use the transaction command to group events. This search fetches all log events that either have a message id or a delivery id for any message or delivery ids that appears in context with the recipient address. Let's do this and directly combine it with a subsearch: You can, in fact, put the format command in your subsearch yourself and use parameters to modify the resulting string. Finally, the resulting query is executed. Then, the value from this search field is taken as a replacement for the subsearch part of the query. This will return a single event with a field named search and a value like Index=mail sourcetype=qmail_current | fields qmail_msg qmail_delivery | format This works because Splunk applies the format command implicitly on subsearches. With a default Splunk subsearch, the outer search will get all events where every field returned from the subsearch matches. Now, in order to get a complete report including delivery progress, we need to consider all log events that include either the appropriate message id or delivery id. Having done our homework, Splunk extractions are set up in a way that we get the qmail_msg and qmail_delivery fields for this event. Index=mail sourcetype=qmail_current particular, this will find the starting delivery events for this address, like the third log line shown above. Use a subsearch to narrow down relevant eventsįirst, lets start with a simple Splunk search for the recipient address. In order to get a comprehensive Splunk report for a given email address and to make it run in acceptable time, I had to learn about Splunk subsearches and transaction grouping. That's probably due to the way the qmail architecture uses different processes for isolated tasks.
By the end of 10 hours I was rated at the 3 diamond gear level and was struggling through memory 6-3.Īt that point, I decided to role play as the ultimate form of Unity consumer. Then I would hunt down unopened chests and grind on side missions to earn enough Livres to buy new gear. I focused primarily on the story until missions got difficult. Going Full Ubisoftįor the first 10 hours of my time with Unity I played it as I would naturally. However, just because I think that Unity’s use of MTX and a companion app were inevitable, it does not mean I think they were particularly friendly to those players who bought this new Assassins Creed on launch day (especially those players who pre-ordered or bought it before the review embargo was lifted). Given that price tags are likely to remain anchored at $US60, more and more blockbuster games will turn to in-game purchases. When it takes 10 game studios working together to create Unity, experimenting with in-game purchases and companion apps as a way to generate additional revenue isn’t greed, it’s survival. Adjusted for inflation, a $US60 game costs the equivalent of $US51 in 2006. This current generation brings us even more beautiful games, even higher development and marketing costs and yet the $US60 price tag remains. The launch of the previous console generation brought us HD gaming, higher development and marketing costs, a $US60 price tag and downloadable $US2.50 horse armour. Player’s stated preferences on Twitter and in comments may be a hatred of all things microtransaction (MTX), but as it becomes clear to companies that they actually buy these items in meaningful quantities, in-game purchases will become as everyday as Day 1 DLC, Season Passes and purchasable cosmetic items. We’re at the point where there is public outcry over a business practice which will ultimately become common. From my insider perspective, it feels as though we have reached our Horse Armour moment with in-game purchases. Not only have I spent the past two and a half years working as a monetisation design consultant, but before that I spent four and a half years as a producer at EA, where I led development on companion games that unlocked exclusive items inside of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II. As a professional game developer, I’m no stranger to companion apps or in-game purchases. When Unity launched last week, piled on top of claims that this is a low point for the series was a frustration with the relevance of the extra hooks the game has to products and services outside the main game: the companion app, the Initiates program and the Helix credit microtransactions in the game. I have a balance of $US56 worth of Helix credits and have nothing meaningful to spend them on. Instead, I open up the eStore and without first looking into what I can buy with Helix credits, opt for the $US100 package, the biggest in-game purchase available from Ubisoft, a publisher that would presumably love for me to buy it.įive and a half hours later, when the credits roll (and roll and roll) on the story, I am decked out in 5-diamond Legendary gear. I could stop working on this memory, instead grinding on side missions and locating chests until I have enough Livres to buy more powerful gear. It adds additional obtainable stars, increasing the difficulty for those looking for more challenging gameplay. There is a new game plus (NG+) option for those perfectionists who want to replay the levels. We just launched the Steam page for it, so please check it out and add to your wishlists, share it with your friends, your cat, and even your gramma!Īnd we will be showing it during PAX at the adjecent Seattle Indies Expo (no badge required!) It takes place on Sunday, Sept. Rain on Your Parade lasts around 3-4 hours, and it is a relatively easy game. Wear The Sunglasses Achieved in Beach Inside Of Level Spoopy Forest Road. In Level 50 Mess With Computer, Crashing The Game. Explore a little museum of old assets and screenshots, concept art, and scrapped ideas. For This Achievement Load Up Level Beach & Tornado All Humans Into The Water. Find all the crow puns for your Puncyclopedia Youll hear from Jakub, Dane and Joe about the ins and outs of what it took to bring you Rain on Your Parade Alpha Museum See first-hand just how AWFUL the game looked for the first half of development.Make new animal friends and help them out.
It has, however, the same limitations as XProtect, and in addition the following: Gatekeeper doesn't depend on a database of known malware. That may not mean much if the developer lives in a country with a weak legal system (see below.) His identity is known to Apple, so he could be held legally responsible if he distributed malware. Software certified in this way hasn't necessarily been tested by Apple, but you can be reasonably sure that it hasn't been modified by anyone other than the developer. By default, applications and Installer packages downloaded from the network will only run if they're digitally signed by a developer with a certificate issued by Apple. Starting with OS X 10.7.5, there has been a second layer of built-in malware protection, designated "Gatekeeper" by Apple. Security updates to the code of obsolete systems will stop being released at some point, and that may leave them open to other kinds of attack besides malware.ģ. The security of obsolete system versions may eventually be degraded. Software installed from a CD or other media is not checked.Īs new versions of OS X are released, it's not clear whether Apple will indefinitely continue to maintain the XProtect database of older versions such as 10.6. ☞ It only applies to software downloaded from the network. ☞ It can be bypassed by some third-party networking software, such as BitTorrent clients and Java applets. The malware recognition database used by XProtect is automatically updated however, you shouldn't rely on it, because the attackers are always at least a day ahead of the defenders. All versions of OS X since 10.6.7 have been able to detect known Mac malware in downloaded files, and to block insecure web plugins. OS X now implements three layers of built-in protection specifically against malware, not counting runtime protections such as execute disable, sandboxing, system library randomization, and address space layout randomization that may also guard against other kinds of exploits.Ģ. The key points are in sections 5, 6, and 10. The comment is long because the issue is complex. That threat is in a different category, and there's no easy way to defend against it. It does not apply to software, such as keystroke loggers, that may be installed deliberately by an intruder who has hands-on access to the computer, or who has been able to log in to it remotely. This is a comment on what you should-and should not-do to protect yourself from malicious software ("malware") that circulates on the Internet and gets onto a computer as an unintended consequence of the user's actions.The answer usually given on ASC is "no." The answer is right, but it may give the wrong impression that there is no threat from what are loosely called "viruses." There is a threat, and you need to educate yourself about it. Ok, thats a long one.Mac users often ask whether they should install "anti-virus" software. Both sometimes hog my CPU, and somehow "lock" my USB drives preventing me from Ejecting it (I had to force eject them or just pull them off from the port) (thought off late Norton seemed a little better) I have used Norton Antivirus for Mac and Virus Barrier (got this with one of those software bundles sometime before, not the latest version) and had problems with both. Maybe I would do a onetime scan of my system and hard drives, and then it would be mostly on a need basis, especially on USB drives/portable hard disks of friends. I don't intend to run it always in the background. "Internet Security" and the like are not important, and would try to avoid them if it would save money or not make my mac slower.īy "Best" I mean the best combination of detect-rate (or whatever that is called) and performance. I was looking for the "Best" of the anti virus software out there. (Many friends' USB drives turn out to be infected). But I need an anti-virus, for a variety of reasons - mostly to prevent my Mac as a carrier for viruses. I know I can avoid most (if not all) threats by being careful on the sites I visit, and the emails I download. I am looking at comparison and user opinion of existing AV products. This is not a "I use OS X, do I need Anti-Virus?" question. Equipped with new devices that enhanced their brainpower to functional levels, the three Dinobots successfully rescued their Autobot comrades, and Optimus Prime admitted his error. Optimus Prime deemed them too dangerous to use again, and had them sealed back up in the cavern, but when the majority of the Autobot forces was captured by the Decepticons, Wheeljack freed them to go to their rescue. Their design specs proved to be too accurate to the creatures they were modeled on, as their primitive brains went out of control, and Grimlock and the other Dinobots almost destroyed Teletraan I, before the trio was stopped. Intrigued by the creatures, and with additional knowledge supplied by Spike Witwicky, Wheeljack and Ratchet created three "Dinobots", one of which being Grimlock. The discovery of fossilized dinosaur bones in a cavern in their volcano base set the Earthbound Autobots on the track to creating the Dinobots. However, the cartoon would disregard this entirely. The original character profiles written by Bob Budiansky and Dan Bobro indicate that Grimlock and the Dinobots were intended to come from Cybertron to Earth like most of the other Transformers. It has since been removed.Īnimated series The Transformers One of the original Grimlock toys was on display in the Natural History Museum, London. Īccording to X-Entertainment, Grimlock was the 2nd best Transformers figure of all time. Grimlock was ranked by IGN as one of their favorite Autobots. Reception A Grimlock toy on display in the Natural History Museum, London. He is able to breathe fire and shoot an energy ray from his mouth. In Tyrannosaurus rex mode, his jaws can snap virtually anything that comes between them. Grimlock is among the strongest of the Transformers, possibly an equal to, or even superior to Optimus Prime and Megatron in most continuities. In the animated series, Grimlock's fellow Dinobots share his speech impediment, whereas in the Marvel Comics series the other Dinobots are capable of grammatically correct speech. However, he is still an Autobot and is willing to protect the Earth as much as them. One of Grimlock's most distinguishing features is his speech impediment, which leads him to shorten sentences and refer to himself as "Me Grimlock", instead of in the first person. The character's initial sense of superiority was changed by the relationships he formed with Spike and Wheelie, as he got to know them on a personal level and started to see them as equals. Grimlock can be merciless and contemptuous of those he considers beneath him, such as human beings, and at times his fellow Autobots He appeared on screen along with other Dinobots in the fourth installment of the Transformers film series. Grimlock was known for his dialogues being spoken in third person. He is usually portrayed as the leader of the Dinobots, which are a subfaction of Autobots who can transform into metal dinosaurs. Grimlock is the name of several fictional robot characters in the Transformers robot franchise. Mechanical Tyrannosaurus, Cybertronian tank, Megaraptor, Ford Mustang GT, Optical mouse "Among the winners, there is no room for the weak.". Fixed a bug that caused crash when downloading metadata.DVD Audio Extractor is now compatible with OSX 10.9 Mavericks.Fixed a crash on OSX that happens when editing chapter names.Fixed a bug that caused a small part of audio at the beginning of chapters being skipped on some Bly-ray discs.Use default frame size for ALAC format, for better compatibility with players like iPod.Update libFLAC library to version 1.3.1.Update Vorbis library to version 1.3.5.Update libFLAC library to version 1.3.2.Fix a bug on decoding 16 bit DTS audio stream.Minimum supported Windows system is now Windows 7. Fix a bug that caused decoding error at the beginning of chapters on some Bly-ray discs.Fix a bug that caused channel ordering of ALAC files not recognized correctly by iTunes.Fix a bug that caused crash on FLAC output on some Win10 machines.Update libFLAC library to version 1.3.3.Update Vorbis library to version 1.3.6.Older Fedora releases are no longer supported. Update to support Fedora 29 and later.Older Ubuntu releases are no longer supported. Update to support Ubuntu 18.04 and later.Drop support to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, as they have reached end of life.Drop support to macOS 10.12 and earlier versions.Fix a bug on decoding DVD-Audio MLP streams on macOS.Improve compatibility with VoiceOver on macOS.Do not set default metadata like "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Album" into result files.Fix a bug that caused some BD discs with only one title failed to be shown.Disable Cmd+X shortcut on macOS, because that is used to cut selected item by default.Update Vorbis library to version 1.3.7.Fix a bug that custom genre is not saved.Update to support Fedora 34 and later.Drop support to macOS 10.14 and earlier versions.Windows build is now 64 bit, 32 bit Windows is no longer supported.Fix a timeout issue on downloading metadata.Update libFLAC library to version 1.3.4.Update to support Fedora 35 and later.Update to support Ubuntu 20.04 and later.Both arm64 and x86_64 binaries are available for download. Fix an ALAC encoding error on Apple Silicon machine.Update libFLAC library to version 1.4.2.Update ALAC format channel layout for better compatibility.Update to support Fedora 36 and later.Drop support to Catalina 10.15 and earlier versions. Release macOS package as universal binary.All the updates are provided free for paid users. DVD Audio Extractor Revision History DVD Audio Extractor is just getting better and better! The software has been continuously updated since it was first released at 2003.
Here’s a breakdown of all these utilities and functionalities. All these utilities can be classified into three main categories, which you can find right on AnyTrans’ home screen. Along with support for a wide array of devices, AnyTrans also includes support for up to 27 different types of iOS content (data and files), which covers a pretty broad spectrum of data that you would need to manage in your everyday use.Īs mentioned already, AnyTrans offers a host of utilities for all the different data management requirements on iPhone/iPad/iPod. Furthermore, since it comes with the ‘switch from Android to iPhone’ feature, it features support for most Android smartphone brands. What devices and data types AnyTrans support?ĪnyTrans is available for both Mac and Windows and works with iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Its latest version builds on the existing fundamental data management utilities and expands the range of functionalities with a more comprehensive suite of utilities to help you better manage data on your iDevices. Much like PhoneTrans, which has been around for years now and transformed into a revamped version very recently, AnyTrans has also tread the same route. It comes from iMobie, a known software company in the data recovery and data management solutions space that has services like PhoneRescue, SendGo, and, more recently, PhoneTrans under its belt. What devices and data types AnyTrans support?ĪnyTrans is an all-in-one data management software to help you with all your data management (transfer, backup, and restore) needs on iPhones, iPads, and iPods.And that is exactly what AnyTrans capitalizes on with its suite of all-in-one utilities that make managing data on your iDevices convenient. However, of the several solutions available out there, not every one of them offers the right set of utilities that serve your requirements. Be it backing up / restoring data, moving data between iDevices, transferring music, creating custom ringtones, transferring WhatsApp data, and whatnot, data management software help simplify user interaction and make such operations convenient. If you are an iPhone or an iPad user, chances are you run into the requirement for data management utilities at some point. As a result, unlike some of the third-party services that come with a comprehensive set of utilities to serve modern-day data management requirements, iTunes falls behind with its limited scope of use. Not just that, it also lacks in functionalities. And even though the software soon got a (native) replacement on macOS and it continues to be available for download on Windows, the experience is not as unified as it used to be. In June last year, Apple decommissioned iTunes - its 18-year-old media software that enabled individuals to manage data on their iOS devices using a computer (Mac or Windows). |
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