![]() > Of course the people who enjoy these things can come from any type of background but first they have to fell welcome to even experience them.Īnd in what way would somebody feel unwelcome by a font? Why is a serif font less welcoming than a sans serif font? When you do the thinking for other people and when you're feeling oppressed on their behalf, maybe you should instead re-evaluate what you're doing. The same technocrats who has filled the world with the most depressing brutalist architecture are claiming that some mysterious "others" suffer greatly from the classical looks of museums. When you're destroying architecture you're destroying culture. Nobody cares about a font, but if you read the thread you'll see that it's also the architecture that is "oppressive" in the eyes of the ideologues. I personally find that a real shame because I think everyone can benefit from visitng them. Currently in my native country the research shows that white people are almost twice as likely to visit a museum in the first place compared to black people. Of course the people who enjoy these things can come from any type of background but first they have to fell welcome to even experience them. Could you explain further what you meant by that? I'm not sure how an institution using a different typeface with the aim of being more inclusive is "destroying culture" to such a degree that it should be a serious consideration when weighed against the benefits. There's also many issues to including contemporary artists from non-traditional background which is a shame for both the creators and people who would potentially enjoy their work. Most have it as an aim to bring access to these benefits to a wide range of people. Museums can be very inspiring and educational places and can also increase the sense of wellbeing in visitors. A few miles away the Boston Athenaeum did a rebrand with the same usual rhetoric on accessibility and diversity, but came through with a font that fits their tradition A logo change is fine, but saying “we want to be accessible to everybody so we’ll strip out anything that ties us to a time, place, or tradition” is like trying to make a welcoming living room by replacing all the sofas, tables, and rugs with a milk crate and a metal foldout chair. What’s disappointing to me is to see cultural institutions take the same defensive approach. That’s deeply appealing for firms in the tech world considering the rapid change of pace. If those values change, you don’t have to tear down your whole identity. Sans is so tempting because it hardly means anything and so designers will tell you it’s a blank canvas you can imbue with whatever values you want. ![]() I think that’s the real trend here: change. ![]() The reasoned that the neoclassical architecture and old-style font made the space intimidating to people who didn’t hold those things to be part of their culture and that it was out of tune with the increasing diversity of their collection and programs. Their stated purpose was to make it more accessible. They went from an elegant serif font to a bland sans with a few funky tails. The one that bums me out the most is the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In other words, If everyone drinks coffee in the morning it's not an imitation to serve coffee in the morning. Therefore, the source of the imitation is not really imitation but an attempt of different brands to capture the new symbolism. ![]() If the new people don't associate the British royal symbolism with the stuff your brand stands for, you drop them and embrace contemporary symbolism, for example. Now you need to convey to the newly coming of age humans that your brand is expensive high quality one but they associate different styles and symbols with high quality than the previous generations and therefore you will need to re-design your logo to mach the new taste. Familiarity conveys a message associated with that familiarity, that is the nature of the brand(cheap or high quality, for young or for old etc) and the brands need to update their logos to convey the correct message as their customers churn(people grow up and then get old).įor example, if you are an expensive brand for people of age over 30 but under 50, 20 years later your 30y/o customer will be 50 and will drop out. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Still, it's something I plan to come back to eventually. I probably will also do fake Lemmy and fake Wendy skins at some point, but not really rushing to do so for the time being. The car initially moves slowly, but it moves faster and faster when damaged and when the player catches up with it. It is a purple muscle car with gold plating, spikes on the top, and hubcaps, with a Bowser hood ornament at the front. Super Paper Mario - Squiglets Sprite Sheet, By. Bowsers Muscle Car 1 is a vehicle that appears in Super Mario 3D World and Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury. I do still at some point in time want to change the clown cars and make a Junior skin based on Bowser's World sprite, but the former's a big undertaking for a whole set like this since each one needs to be done twice and Junior's come out glitchy every time I've tried editing him so I'm not really rushing to try again for the time being. Sprites have the ability in Super Mario World to move and animate freely. This includes a new and improved hud I made for Super Mario World, enjoy. ![]() Though there is more I'd like to do with these I don't know how much further I'm going to pursue this whole matter for the time being, given I'm wanting to do more with the Koopalings beyond this pack. This glitch was fixed in the Game Boy Advance version. There have been TexID fixed, which I intend to come back around to doing with the rest of my mods at some point in time. More glitchy graphics appear and they give large amounts of points in addition to numerous coins. They could at least have 'mis coloured' him so his red hair would be orange. If you don't then just renumber these as necessary, or just grab one - I personally am using this nifty Meowser Jr. The precise coloring and close resemblance to modern-day Bowser means it doesnt really fit in with the rest of the Mario World sprites and looks more like it originated from a fan game. Set up for new slots, everything needed is there and ready to go, though with the understanding that you have an extra Bowser Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have sensitive eyes as well and do a lot of work at night so looked into getting a screen protector like the kind used on the old CRTS, but they were too bulky, somewhat costly, and did not work well on my 17.3" laptop. This will also block some UV and blue light if you don't want to use software or use some strange Linux on which no software works at all :) Technically you can also lower the brightness by wearing sunglasses in front of the PC. Most LED monitors change the brightness via a process called Pulse-width modulation which is really bad for the eyes. One thing to note is that I don't recommend changing the brightness via monitor buttons if the monitor is LED. Iris can do this also but this is not related to the question. One plus of Iris over f.lux is that you automate the brightness reduction based on day and night just like most blue light filter programs do with the color temperature and blue light. Iris and f.lux should work fine because they change the white point of the screen which is better. This method reduces contrast quite a bit and may cause eye problems. Looking at the other answers most programs lower the brightness by placing a transparent overlay filter. This over the maximum brightness is really useful when watching movies for me Here is how brightness on 110% looks like You can go as low as 10% if you enable Extended values, but this is really dark screenĪside from going down you can also go up to 150% brightness. If you set Iris to 50% brightness the screen will look like this Here is a normal screen with Brightness on 100% You can get the biggest possible dim range with Iris. ![]() ![]() But Roblox has some interesting benefits when it comes to building translation models. We want low latency, which is hard with many languages because of different sentence structures. Each would hear what the other says -the voice characteristics, the rhythm, the emotion-at low latency, but in their own language. So imagine a German speaker chatting on Roblox with an English speaker. That’s an example of where we’re looking at how to translate beyond typed text.Īnd we’re also starting to see progress on our research work on voice chat translation. The other thing is successfully translating all kinds of content, including images, like a handwritten sign. In fact, we’ve already lowered the cost of our experience translation models by over 70% this year. Over time, we’ll continue improving on the quality and the cost factor. Implementing NLP required building our own translation models, which are significantly more efficient. When it comes to translating text, voice, and images, we’re starting to utilize natural language processing (NLP), which incorporates some of the ML mastery we have at Roblox. What are some of the innovative solutions we’re building to address these technical challenges? Our next big technical challenge will be to do automatic translation across all kinds of content, from text to images, 3D meshes, avatar items, game products, game passes, badges, and so on.Įventually, we hope most people will be able to use Roblox and not even realize anything is translated because everything’s in their natural language. But it’s a much bigger challenge when we don’t know what creators are making, and so we’ve focused initially on trying to provide automatic translations for creators’ experiences. We have in-house translators who can easily handle more established things like navigation and instructions on our website. So in order to overcome language barriers, we need to be able to localize what people see and hear in real-time in 15 languages. We want everyone to enjoy any creator’s content, and interact and make friendships, no matter where they live and what language they speak. But while our global community is huge, many creators only speak one language, which can make it hard for people to communicate with one another on our platform. And our platform lets them share their creations with people from around the world. ![]() ![]() Creators can make and share anything they want on Roblox. Roblox is a platform for communication and connection through 3D experiences. Tell us about the big technical challenges your team is trying to solve for? In doing so, we’re ensuring a localized experience for tens of millions of people around the globe. In doing so, we are helping users understand content both on the platform and in-experience, no matter what language it’s in. ![]() In this edition of Inside the Tech, we talked with Engineering Manager Kyle Spence about some of the Creator team’s key technical challenges: automatically translating Roblox content in the 15 languages we support. In episode 19, International, Roblox CEO David Baszucki spoke with Zhen Fang, Head of International, about tackling automatic translation and multilingual search. ![]() Inside the Tech is a blog series that goes hand-in-hand with our Tech Talks Podcast. ![]() ![]() Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. History Daniel Ek addressing Spotify staff in 2010 While certain musicians have voiced objections to Spotify's royalty structure and its effect on record sales, others laud the service for offering a lawful option to combat piracy and for remunerating artists each time their music is played. ![]() It distributes approximately 70% of its total revenue to rights holders (often record labels), who then pay artists based on individual agreements. ![]() Unlike physical or download sales, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the number of artist streams as a proportion of total songs streamed. Īs of December 2023, Spotify was the 47th most-visited website in the world with 24.78% of its traffic coming from the United States followed by Brazil with 6.51% according to data provided by Semrush. The service is available on most devices, including Windows, macOS, and Linux computers, iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, smart home devices such as the Amazon Echo and Google Nest lines of products, and digital media players like Roku. It has no presence in mainland China where the market is dominated by QQ Music. Its users and subscribers are based largely in the US and Europe, jointly accounting for around 53% of users and 67% of revenue. Spotify is available in most of Europe, as well as Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, with a total availability in 184 markets. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists. As a freemium service, basic features are free with advertisements and limited control, while additional features, such as offline listening and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. Spotify offers digital copyright restricted recorded audio content, including more than 100 million songs and five million podcasts, from record labels and media companies. ) on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of American depositary receipts. Spotify is listed (through a Luxembourg City-domiciled holding company, Spotify Technology S.A. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 602 million monthly active users, including 236 million paying subscribers, as of December 2023. ![]() Spotify ( / ˈ s p ɒ t ɪ f aɪ/ Swedish: ) is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. ![]() ![]() Conduct persona researchįlesh out as much information as possible about the persona your customer journey map is based on. ![]() Pro Tip: If you don’t already have them in place, create buyer personas to help you focus your customer journey map on the specific types of buyers you’re optimizing for. Gather unique perspectives and insights about each part of the existing customer journey and where improvements are needed, and how those improvements will be measured. To set a logical and attainable goal, cross-functional teamwork is essential. You will likely need to identify existing-and future-buyers so you can set goals specifically for those audiences at each stage of their experience.Ĭonsider gathering the key stakeholders within your company-many of whom likely touch different points of the customer experience. Without a goal, it will be difficult to determine whether your customer journey map will translate to a tangible impact on your customers and your business. If you aren’t sure what your personas or scenarios might be, gather some colleagues and try an affinity diagram in Lucidchart to generate ideas. Although you may target multiple personas, choose just one persona and one customer scenario to research and visualize at a time. How to create a customer journey mapĬustomer journey maps can become complicated unless you keep them focused. Making the investment to map your customer journey and solidify that process as part of your company’s DNA can result in significant advantages in your competitive landscape, making your solution the go-to option that customers love. Yet, according to Hanover Research, only 47% of companies currently have a process in place for mapping customer journeys. Make it possible to assess the ROI of future UX/CX investments.įollowing the process outlined above, customer mapping can put your organization on a new trajectory of success.Assign ownership of various customer touchpoints to increase employee accountability.Understand the circumstances that may have produced irregularities in existing quantitative data.Target specific customer personas with marketing campaigns relevant to their identity.Break down silos between departments and close interdepartmental gaps.Shift from a company to a customer-focused perspective.Identify and optimize moments of truth in the CX.Increase customer engagement through channel optimization.When done correctly, customer journey mapping helps to: In fact, 1 in 3 businesses used customer journey maps to help them navigate the changing landscape during the pandemic. This was especially evident in recent years as top of improving marketing, customer journey maps emerged as a valuable way to understand evolving buyer behavior. It enables you to discover how to be consistent when it comes to providing a positive customer experience and retaining customer loyalty. ![]() Another 91% said their maps drove sales.īut understanding a customer’s journey across your entire organization does so much more than increase your revenue. In a 2022 report, Hanover Research found that 94% of businesses said their customer journey maps help them develop new products and services to match customer needs. ![]() The benefits of customer journey mappingĬustomer journey mapping is a powerful tool for uncovering insights into your customer experience, driving business goals, and building resilience in a changing market. But, a well-constructed and researched customer journey map can give you the insights to drastically improve your business’s customer experience. Without an essential understanding of your customers and their needs, a customer map will not lead you to success. Research your target audiences to understand how they make decisions, decide to purchase, etc. Your customer journey maps may need to be tailored to your business or product, but the best way to identify and refine these phases is to actually talk to your customers. Your customer journey map should include touchpoints and moments of truth, but also potential customer feelings, such as frustration or confusion, and any actions you want the customer to take.Ĭustomer journey maps are often based on a timeline of events, such as a customer’s first visit on your website and the way they progress towards their first in-product experience, then purchase, onboarding emails, cancellation, etc. These visuals tell a story about how a customer moves through each phase of interaction and experiences each phase. A customer journey map is a visual representation of a customer’s experience with your brand. ![]() ![]() Gilbert in 1861, was specifically for burials of members of the “Black community” according to the historical marker. The land, donated to the city by the cemetery’s namesake, Jeremiah S. The monument has the names of those who were originally buried there and the names of the churches they worshipped in the area. One would have to have seen the obelisk and historical marker back on Cleveland Avenue near the northbound exit to learn more about the site. There isn’t a sign that lets you know you’re on hallowed ground. A short walk alleviates the need to hop the fence. Not particularly safe on a highway with the amount of traffic Interstate 75 generates during the day, visitors will have to walk through grass, and in the case of this particular day, mud, to get to the cemetery.Ī four-foot fence that was either near completion or more likely never planned to be completed in the first place sits around the graves. To get to the cemetery you have to get on the off-ramp and immediately pull over onto the grass median. ![]() ![]() Subscribe to the Atlanta Voice Newsletters.Getting to Know the APS Board of Education Candidates.Getting to Know the Atlanta City Council Candidates. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scale converter : calculate the actual length and the scale length according to the scale ratio.16 mm 5/8 inch To convert CM to fractional inch, fill number. Height conversion : convert feet and inches to centimeters, convert cm to ft and in. How to use this tool To convert MM to fractional inch, fill number into the blank MM, e.g.Feet to CM : convert feet(ft) to centimeters(cm), or centimeters to feet.MM to CM : convert millimeters(mm) to centimeters(cm), or centimeters to millimeters.Inches to feet : convert inches(in) to feet(ft), or feet to inches.Inches to CM : convert inches(in) to centimeters(cm), or centimeters to inches.Online scale ruler with metric units(cm, m, km) Online scale ruler with imperial units(in, ft, yd, mi) It's a good idea to check the products size, before we buying it from internet, try this virtual actural size ruler Fractions and Decimal Inches Equivalents 64 ths 32 nds 16 ths 8 ths 4 ths half whole decimal (in) 1/64 : 0.0156: 2/64: 1/32 : 0.0313: 3/64 : 0. One centimeter is approximately three times smaller than an inch. Another way to imagine the size of a centimeter is in relation to inches. ![]() Most Fractional Rulers are based on the English measuring system where scales are graduated in units of one inch and fractions of an inch.Ī centimeter is 10 millimeters, or approximately the width of a fingernail. Decimal Rulers have graduations or marks which are based on the decimal system such as 0.5, 0.25, 0.1, 0.05, etc. ![]() Fractional Rulers have graduations or marks based on fractions, for example 1/2", 1/4" 1/8", 1/16", etc. There are two types of scales commonly used on rulers Fractional and Decimal. Step 2: Multiply both top and bottom by 10 for every number after the decimal point: As we have 3 numbers after the decimal point, we multiply both numerator and denominator by 1000. 1 inch equals 2.54 centimeters, 1 cm equals 0.393700787 in. To convert the decimal 0.196 to a fraction, just follow these steps: Step 1: Write down the number as a fraction of one: 0.196 0.1961.1 meter = 100 centimeters = 1,000 millimeters.Set the pixels per inch (PPI) according your own device. If you would like to have the online ruler in actual size, Complete the division to convert the fraction to a decimal. So i set the default pixels per inch(PPI) is 100.7 for myself. Our image below shows 2.5 mm on a tape measure. Although the fractional answer above is exact, the decimal answer may be rounded if necessary: 25/254 0.0984251968503937. Inches to Decimal Feet Conversion Table: Inches, Feet, Inches, Feet. I found the markings are not very accurate at 30cm, As promised above, we also have the answer to 2.5 mm in inches in decimal form. Engineering ToolBox - Resources, Tools and Basic Information for Engineering and Design of Technical Applications Inches vs. I google the PPI reference and found 100 PPI to my screen,Īfter i measure the size of virtual ruler by a actual ruler, Convert fractional and/or decimal inches to metric mm - and vice versa. The diagonal screen is 15.6"(inches) of my laptop computer, resolution is 1366x768 pixels. This table assumes that the inches are being converted into decimal feet. ![]() For example, if you have 8 inches, the decimal value would be 0.6667. Use 1/8" graduations, 10cm = 4" Use 1/16" graduations, 10cm = 3 15/16" Īdjusting this online ruler to actual size To use the table, simply find the number of inches in the left column, and then look at the corresponding decimal value in the right column.If you are using XL2007 or above, make sure you save your file as an "Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook (*.xlsm) and answer the "do you want to enable macros" question as "yes" or "OK" (depending on the button label for your version of Excel) the next time you open your workbook.Fill MM, CM, decimal inch or fraction to convert Converting from fractional inches to decimal (fraz > dec). You can now use Inches just like it was a built-in Excel function. To install it, simply press ALT+F11 to go into the VB editor and, once there, click Insert/Module on its menu bar, then copy/paste the above code into the code window that just opened up. Remove the whole number 2 from the decimal, leaving us with the decimal 0.695. For instance, lets convert 2.695 inches to a fraction with 1/16' precision. Enter inch or mm value you wish to convert, then select desired conversion ->. If you are new to UDFs, they are easy to install and use. Finally, express the numerator over the level of precision (e.g., 16) and place the fractional inches next to the whole inches to obtain the final result. Fraction to Decimal Conversions, Inch / Metric. Function Inches(ByVal FeetInch As String) As Variantĭim FootMark As Long, Foot As String, Inch As String, Temp As VariantįeetInch = Application.Trim(Replace(Replace(Replace(Application.Trim(FeetInch), "-", " "), "/ ", "/"), " /", "/")) ![]() ![]() ![]() After having seen what card has been pulled, they must lay the card face down on their side of the board and make sure the opponent doesn't see it. Your lines of retreat are located either on your left flank (grid 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the board), your center (grid 5, 6, 7 or 8 of the board) or on your right flank (grid 9, 10, 11 or 12 of the board).īefore the game can start, both players will blindly choose a Line of Retreat card from the deck in order to fi nd out where their lines of retreat lie. In Stratego: Waterloo it's also crucial to defend your lines of retreat during a battle. If these lines of retreat-or lines of communication-were severed, they would be cut off from their homeland, reserve troops, supplies and hospitals resulting in crippling losses and almost certainly the end of the campaign. ![]() They formed an uninterrupted chain between their capital city and the territory they were moving in. The first player that succeeds in getting at least two of his units on the opponent's lines of retreat, wins the battle and thus the game.ĭuring the Napoleonic Wars it was standard practice that the moving armies were followed by their supply and Artillery trains, mobile field hospitals and potential reinforcements. ![]() The first player that succeeds in severing the lines of retreat of the opposite player gains a decisive victory and thus wins the game! Obviously, the game is also lost if a player loses his commander and commander in chief, because he will not be able to perform any actions anymore. The Battle Die is taken out and put next to the board.ĭepending on the game that will be played, the Maneuver cards, Terrain tiles, Ownership fl ags and Building counters are taken out of the box (Standard or Expert) or left in the box (Basic). The Turn counter is put on the timeline on the side of the board - on the field "11 o'clock". The Line of Retreat cards are shuffled and put on the side of the table next to the board. Take the 13 Prussian pieces, shuffle them and put them on the side of the board in such a way that the units are invisible to both players. The French player takes his 47 pieces and the Allied player takes his 45 pieces out of the box. The French player must sit on the side of the board with the French flag, the Allied player on the side of the board with the flag of the United Kingdom. The game board is put in the middle of the table in-between both players. ![]() ![]() The gauntlet has been thrown down, Sonic Forces. We'll see this Tuesday if a year's extra development time has made it the ultimate Sonic the Hedgehog game, but going by the Sonic Mania animated intro alone the hedgehog's in very safe hands. with excellent music and perfect controls. We played a couple of levels of Sonic Mania last year, Green Hill and Studiopolis, and it really did play like a well-polished classic Sonic game. Series villain Dr Robotnik/Dr Eggman makes a brief appearance at the end. It's also possibly the first Mania showing of co-op, with Tails lifting Sonic up and flying while holding him in the same manner as was possible in Sonic 3. It shows them smacking Badnik robots, warping between levels by the use of giant rings, and even the new Studiopolis level (which we've played and is excellent). ![]() All the credits of the gif goes to facundogomez. They really are quite good.Īpart from being wonderful, the opening (which continues on from the ending of the pre-order trailer) shows Sonic, Tails and Knuckles riding an elevator to their next adventure, Mania. Shortened it to when Sonic is making the 'No' sign, and looped it since the original only had the finger moving from left to right. ![]() The music is a song called Friends by Hyper Potions, two talented remix musicians who have done a number of songs for the game and its advertising so far, including the unique song for May's teaser pre-order version of the intro. The Sonic Mania intro is designed, animated and directed by Tyson Hesse, a really talented artist/animator who has worked on the long-running Sonic the Hedgehog Archie comic and is currently working on his own comic, Diesel. And it is even more wonderful than we could have hoped. ![]() Now that Sonic Mania's nearly out, this coming Tuesday August 15 in fact, SEGA have released the full intro. The animation was cute, bubbly, hand-drawn, and clearly designed to evoke the opening of Sonic CD. Addeddate 18:35:24 Identifier sonic-mania202307 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0. Back in May SEGA gave us a glimpse of the animated intro for Sonic Mania, the upcoming retro-throwback Sonic the Hedgehog title. Sonic Mania is an all-new adventure with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles full of unique bosses, rolling 2D landscapes, and fun classic gameplay. ![]() |
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