![]() Prior to this I was dictating with a USB 3-in-1 TableMike on one computer and a 6-in-1 TableMike on another, I have also recently used a Sennheiser MB Pro 2, and a Speechware FlexyMike and MultiAdapter combination. I am providing a brief review following receipt of my Philips SpeechOne headset. There are 3 models but only one that really works.Ĭhange "No" to "Know" w/ KnowBrainer 2022 PS: We just noted that you are in Australia so it would be less expensive to purchase the Sennheiser MB Pro1 UC locally but make certain it is the Sennheiser MB Pro1 UC model and not the Sennheiser MB Pro1 UC/ML. If you're looking for a more rugged TableMike, you might consider checking out the inexpensive SoundTech GN-USB-2 TableMike.ĭid you know that your existing Philips Premium 3710 can be used as a TableMike with a 4 foot range in Dragon 15? If you purchased that microphone from us, you additionally received our exclusive table stand, which we included no cost. It's very pretty (even looks rugged) but in our opinion, too expensive, too little, too late. ![]() Now you know why we passed on offering the PSM6000 SpeechOne headset. The MB Pro1 UC is “completely” wireless, lighter and the battery runs 16 hours. The MB Pro1 also works on your cell phone and is truly mobile while the PSM6000 SpeechOne can't do that either. By comparison, the existing Sennheiser MB Pro1 UC, which we rate #1 only requires the included tiny USB Bluetooth dongle that you can plug in and forget. It is more than double the price of the Sennheiser MB Pro1 UC, features less memory, charges slower but most importantly requires a USB docking station which makes it impractical for tablet and notebook computers. The Philips PSM6000 SpeechOne headset looks like it would be a potentially accurate microphone but we have a few problems. Only reason I switched was that (a) I already needed the travel-mike setup for my 2-in-1 that I use to take notes in court (the philips specs are quite open about their mikes needing surplus RAM and a decent CPU), and (b) the 3710 has run into problems with its input cord and now tends to drop in and out, and needs fixing (I think the socket has taken too much wear, from my toddler yanking the cord out at speed).īut these days the 2-in-1's actually have enough RAM and power to use Philips with Dragon just fine, so Philips is back on the menu. I used to like the Philips 3710 as my 'laptop that's portable, but more grunt than a 2-in-1' mike - I actually think they're the best actual microphones of the lot, and it's a real pity that they only made handhelds (due to lawyers being so IT-deficient that they need something that looks comfortably similar to the dictaphones that we use because as a profession, we're still not quite confident enough using Microsoft Word to do our own typing). Trying to decide now whether to go for yet another speechware pod (they all break the same way, through my mishandling, but when it happened 3 times, I kinda have to accept that I'm probably too stuck in my ways to rely on the reasoning that "it's my own fault, therefore I won't keep doing it over and over again". Just managed to break my 3rd speechware USB, which I use in conjunction with audio-technica headset on my laptop (tablemike on desktop) & 2-in-1. Is there a reason why it's not sold here? Or is it just that it's new-ish and hasn't been tried yet? ![]() is it of similar quality to the handheld range)? I was really excited to see them finally make a non-handheld, as part of their digital dictation range, and that they're promoting it as their new flagship product.īut I'm worried by the lack of reviews (other than cut-and-paste adverts in disguise), and that it's not had any mention at all here. Question is: does anyone know whether the new Philips PSM6000 Speech One headset is any good (i.e.
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Sounds an awful lot like the Rocky IV victory score that he also did. ![]() Makes sense, we just lost our hero in the story.Ĭalls in the synth choir and gets the tap tempo arpeggiator running. Vince backs off the full-time synth to lay down some dramatic piano. Huge falsettos are all over the end of this tune, but none so much as the final note. Power chords were invented for Instruments of Destruction. Which is funny, because Megadeath appears on Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Instruments of Destruction sounds like a tune off of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, only if Dave Mustaine wrote it. Hot Rod! Instruments of Destruction - N.R.G. How many Decepticons does Optimus mow down there? More than enough. Stan Bush needs to be immortalized for his work on the album. Solidly clean, overdriven single coil guitar sprinkled throughout. Love the synth/vox breakdown, right before the huge guitar riff plows back in. Madly inspirational, Stan Bush at his (near) finest.įighting to the end, never giving in when you're back is to the wall, seeking out the eye of the storm, fighting fire with fire, that is what The Touch is all about. The Touch, Dare, and the Transformers theme song team up well with Vince DiCola's score in the Transformers - The Movie soundtrack. Transformers: The Movie soundtrack album notes Tracks 11-14 were not on the original soundtrack release, but on the 2007 Volcano Entertainment re-release. How can you not? So anthemic, so kick ass, so everything in between. Not the finished film, not a rough cut, the storyboards. What is amazing is that he wrote the music to the cartoon movie to the storyboards. I traded in my initial shock for more of a can-do attitude and told the director and producers, "Oh sure, no problem at all. I was told that I would be writing most of the music not to picture, as is usually the case, but to "storyboards", which is far from the norm. Another surprise nearly threw me into a panic mode. This amount of music is not particularly uncommon for a full lenght animated film, but was certainly more than I had ever been asked to produce for one movie. ![]() The first surprise was realizing that about 75 minutes worth of music would be required. "From the beginning, I found this to be a very challenging project. Vince DiCola on scoring the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack And, as far as we are concerned, this is the only Transformers soundtrack. This is the best Transformers soundtrack. This is the original Transformers soundtrack. Just pure 80s synth, hair metal, screechy vocals, amazing falsetto, huge guitars, and all sorts of other righteous musical motifs. This was way before the Michael Bay live-action tentpole of 2007, with thankfully none of the Linkin Park. The motion picture soundtrack ranged from bitchin' hair metal ( Lion and Kick Axe, Stan Bush) to Vince DiCola's perfect synth-industrial score. In 1986, the legendary Transformers: The Movie soundtrack hit the shelves, putting records and cassettes into the hands of kids across the nation, filling everyone with joy. Why? Cause he is a bad ass.īetter still, there was the music! The movie soundtrack Peter Cullen, to be fair, appears as Optimus Prime in (nearly) all versions. The Eric IDle, Orson Welles, Judd Nelson, and Leonard Nimoy, Micro machines guy, Michael Bell voiced Transformers. ![]() Way before Michael Bay, Josh Duhamel, Shia Lebeouf, Megan Fox, and John Turturro.īefore Steven Jablonsky wrote the score to the live action Transformers.Īt a time when kids were playing Transformers outside in sandboxes, not playing Transformers on netflix. Speaking of Bang Camaro, they'd be great to include on a live action Transformers movie. But hey, at least they got the color right. Way before Sam and Mikaela were riding around in a refreshed Bumblebee (Transformers Gen I Bumblebee is VW bug, not a (Bang) Camaro). Stan Bush, Vince DiCola, Kick Axe, Lion, NRG, and Weird Al create an epic soundtrack to the legendary, Transformers The Movie. The Transformers Theme (Alternate Version) - Vince DiCola.Megatron Must Be Stopped (Parts 1 & 2) - Vince DiCola.Moon Base 2 - Shuttle Launch - Vince DiCola.Dare to Be Stupid - "Weird Al" Yankovic.Autobot / Decepticon Battle - Vince DiCola.Nothin' Gonna Stand In Our Way - Spectre General (Kick Axe). ![]() The code demonstrates the use of the AskFaceProps function and a couple of vector functions that may come in handy. I encourage you to step through the code to see what is going on, I can almost guarantee that you will learn something. This journal will only work with NX 8 or above. Construct a studio spline through these points which will closely approximate the centerline of the tube.The average of these points determines the center point of the tube cross section. At each point of interest along the length of the tube, generate equally spaced points around the circumference (U direction) of the tube.Use the V direction surface data to help generate the tube centerline. Collect the B-surface data, make sure the surface is closed in the U direction.The user is prompted to select a B-surface face.He has given us permission to reproduce some code he originally posted in the GTAC forum in answer to the request for extracting the centerline of an unparameterized free form tube. He is a regular contributor at the GTAC languages forum and also at the eng-tips Siemens NX forum and he likes to write and share the type of code that can get you out of situations like this. NXJournaling: Let me introduce you to Frank Swinkels. NXJournaling: Ok, assuming it is made of straights and bends, we can extract lines from the cylindrical faces then.Ĭoworker: Well, it doesn't have straight sections or simple bends so much. 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The NYPD arrested Neely 42 times across the last decade, and he had a documented mental health history with police, with his most recent arrest in November 2021 for slugging a 67-year-old female stranger in the face. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is investigating the death. To be honest with you, we are guilty of that,” he added. They choked him til he went unconscious, and then they kept choking him,” Grima said. “We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence.”Īt least three people were cuffed following a demonstration inside the Broadway-Lafayette station, where Neely died, and a subsequent march in the local streets.įriends Johnny Grima and James King came to the vigil, saying they had witnessed the Monday incident. “NYC is not Gotham,” city Comptroller Brad Lander tweeted. Neely, 30, was a familiar sight around town, performing in Times Square and on subways as the King of Pop. The determination came after friends and elected officials expressed outrage over the death, insisting the homeless busker didn’t deserve to die. The finding is a critical piece of the investigation as police said they were awaiting the results of the autopsy before determining if criminal charges should be filed. The city Medical Examiner found the cause of victim Jordan Neely’s Monday death was compression of the neck. Marine aboard a Manhattan subway train was ruled a homicide on Wednesday as anger and protests erupted over the killing. ![]() The caught-on-video chokehold death of a homeless, mentally-ill Michael Jackson impersonator by a former U.S. Survey submissions will be accepted until Friday, June 16. 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That’s about 4 million people-up about 3.8% from January.īut are certain states across the U.S. In fact, American workers are quitting at historically high rates: In February 2023, the national quit rate was 2.6%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Some employees have even resorted to ghosting their employer-simply stopping work without ever informing their boss. In the wake of the Great Resignation, quitting seems far more common than ever. Of course, there are myriad reasons workers might put in their notices, ranging from the mundane (like moving to a new state) to the dramatic (like having blow-up arguments with a supervisor). (Stacker) – Low pay, minimal opportunities for growth, and disrespectful work environments-these are just a handful of the top reasons why employees quit their jobs, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center Survey. ![]() Lokua and Mujangi admitted that they traveled to Seattle on Nov. He stated that payment would have to be routed through a bank account in China before they could access the cash in Kinshasa. Lokua discussed sending two tons of ivory and one ton of pangolin scales concealed in a shipping container. Lokua and Mujangi acknowledged that in June 2021, they sent nearly five pounds of rhinoceros horn to Seattle using a similar scheme. They arranged for the ivory to be cut into smaller pieces and painted black the packages were then falsely labeled as containing wood. They sent three packages containing approximately 49 pounds of ivory from Kinshasa. Between August and September 2020, Lokua and Mujangi made several small sales to build trust with the buyers. They worked with a middleman to negotiate the sales and coordinate imports to Seattle. In their prior guilty pleas, both defendants admitted that, beginning in November 2019, they agreed to smuggle the wildlife products at issue to the United States. “HSI is proud of our international public and private sector partnerships who enabled the success of this investigation and will continue to leverage those partnerships to target and dismantle future trafficking organizations who seek profit over the risk of extinction.” “Wildlife trafficking is decimating many species worldwide and has broader impacts to a country’s economic development and security,” said Special Agent in Charge Robert Hammer, who oversees Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) operations in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() “I commend our Homeland Security Investigations and DRC partners in stopping this trafficking ring before tons of protected wildlife products entered the illegal market.” “Today’s sentence demonstrates that wildlife trafficking leads to prison, and that we are committed to prosecuting this crime,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. Mujangi helped package the wildlife products and handled the financial details to process the payment through a Chinese bank and then back to DRC. ![]() The court determined that Lokua was the organizer of a trafficking operation involving more than five other co-conspirators whose goal was to ship a cargo container full of elephant ivory, white rhinoceros horn, and pangolin scales to Seattle. Both men had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and Lacey Act charges on July 13. Lokua was sentenced to 20 months in prison and Mujangi was sentenced to 14 months in prison. A federal judge sentenced Herdade Lokua, 34, and Jospin Mujangi, 32, of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to prison for their roles in trafficking wildlife products from DRC to Seattle. I also removed my exhaust manifold and repared it as the cat had a crack. certainly much easier and quicker than the countless hours i spent trying to get versions of DIS I downloaded of the internet for free. I paid 20ish pounds and got a copy of DIS on a usb stick. You can find a cheap copy of DIS from .uk or something along those lines. And then after that I will need to replace my ambient air sensor and then erasing that code with DIS also. I will be changing the brushes in the ABS motor and hopefully erasing that code too. I eventually used DIS which solved the problem and I even used it to diagnose my ABS light. I toyed with it over many days and used NCS Dummy to change all the things that had "Transport Mode" in the title. You wont be able to delete transport mode with INPA and NCS Expert unfortunately. INPA was useful, even if just to get live analyticsįor DIS - I have that ready for download just in case but is there a way of knowing the most recent version? OR a Link?Īpart from it being a huge file would it require some sort of virual machine setup? (I think this is the case for ISTA) So yeah, I would skip the old software and go for ISTA as you have it. I would get them as well but having got INPA and DIS working don't think they offer anything above and beyond, apart from being a lot easier to install on newer laptops. Should be fine with ISTA, not used them but basically upgraded version of DIS / INPA and easier to use so transport mode will be in them somewhere. ![]() Those two programs came with the cable i bought but yeah.such huge files to download. It is probably raining tomorrow so I will start with ISTA-P and ISTA-D first. Really pissed off, killed so much time to learn NCS Expert and going through bunch of forums. In some cases, running antivirus or a VPN have interfered with the toolchain install. Install Toolchain Manager and the toolchain you want to use. Download the newest version of nRF Connect for Desktop. If you can get hold of DIS that's the easiest way to do it, if you have the patience to install it Remove the toolchains using Toolchain Manager. How to get MOID which will be used to uninstall IOFilterĢ) Login to vCenter mob using : 3) Click on Contentħ) MOID is one listed against the cluster: for e.g.Not seen it done in NCS or INPA.
![]() If you turn the Mixer knob fully counterclockwise to Inputs, and you connect functional speakers, headphones, and an input device (such as a mic, guitar, or bass) to the AudioBox, you should hear audio. The "Direct" button will allow you to directly monitor the inputs. PLEASE NOTE: The iOne does not have a "Mix" or "Mixer" knob. An in-between position creates a blend of these two signals. The Inputs setting directly monitors the analog inputs of the AudioBox, while Playback monitors the signal coming from the computer. The Mixer knob on the front of the AudioBox changes the blend of the output signal from the AudioBox. Verify that the AudioBox is receiving a signal. If the AudioBox is your Audio Device in Studio One, then all sound will pass in and out of the AudioBox, not the computer's sound card.Ĩ. Make sure that your speakers or headphones are plugged into your AudioBox, not your computer. Then select "Audio Setup" and check the "Audio Device" drop-down box.ħ. In Studio One, simply click "Studio One" from within the program, then "Options" (on PC) or "Studio One Preferences" (on OSX). Make sure that the AudioBox is selected as your Audio Device in your DAW. If the AudioBox is not connecting to your computer, or basic audio playback is not working, please see this article at our Knowledge Base.Ħ. Test basic audio playback with YouTube or iTunes. Set the AudioBox as the default audio device for Playback, Recording and Communications. PC Users, please open Windows Control Panel > Sound. For more info on this topic, please visit this article at our Knowledge Base.ĥ. Verify that you are plugging your AudioBox into a USB 2.0 port, not a USB 3.0 port. For laptops, please check your computer's USB diagrams and see if it has a USB 2.0 port.Ĥ. The USB ports on the front of your computer may be a simple distributed hub, not true USB ports. Make sure that you have plugged the AudioBox into your computer before you start Studio One. Check that you are using a USB cable shorter than 9 feet (~3 meters).ģ. If you are using a desktop computer (not a laptop), please reinstall the driver on a USB port on the back of the system. For more information regarding this, check out this article at our Knowledge Base.Ģ. Make sure that the AudioBox is plugged into the same USB port as when the driver was originally installed. The link for Universal Control will be on the products downloads page.ġ. Choose your hardware from the list on this page. Please install Universal Control for your Presonus hardware. Universal Control also allows for firmware updates for our hardware. Universal Control is the delivery system for our drivers per our hardware. This guide, while written for PreSonus Studio One, should generally apply to most current DAW software. If you can't get a recording or playback signal to pass through your AudioBox, or if you can't get recording to engage in your DAW (digital audio workstation) software, check for the common situations below. But it wasn't the runaway success they wanted and went FAR over budget. The elegance of Spore’s vast and multifarious Space Stage is visually and mechanically breathtaking.Originally posted by Neonivek:I thought Spore actually made back its money and then some. Though the game’s level of complexity rises dramatically here, at no time does it feel cumbersome or clunky. ![]() Transplant entire planetary ecologies one plant or animal at a time to create an ideal civilization. Search for randomly scattered artifacts that you can pawn for megabucks. Abduct specimens for research by tractor-beaming them into your cargo hold, but don’t drop them! Lob cosmic paintballs into a planet’s atmosphere to change its color. Each time you seem to get a handle on an activity such as carting different colored spices between planets for cash or terraforming inhospitable planets (transforming them to make them capable of sustaining life) prior to launching colony pods, the game throws something new and unexpected at you.ĭestroy creatures “infected” by an alien race, but don’t kill anything else accidentally or you might start a war. Once you’re up and winging around the galaxy, you’ll discover that things never settle into the redundant rhythms that held the other stages back. Do you have to pursue it? Nope, and even if you do, the game lets you keep exploring afterward for as long as you like. At the galaxy’s center, an ominous bulge of white teases an optional endgame story line that you’ll encounter as you expand your interstellar empire. Pull back all the way, and you’ll find yourself gazing at a twinkling spiral-arm galaxy flush with thousands of systems harboring who knows how many player-created life forms, any of which you may explore at your leisure (or maybe not, as hostile species come a-knockin’). Pull the view back farther, and you’ll hover in your local galaxy–surrounded by stars that you can radio-scan for sounds of life with a SETI-scope and that your preliminary spaceship can just barely reach. Pull the view back, and you’ll see your solar system–its sun in the middle, comets hurtling by like slow-pitch snowballs, and planets whirling on colored orbital paths that indicate their propensity to support life. Everything up to this point has been preparing you for the shock you’ll experience as you pull your preliminary spaceship up above the clouds of your planet and gaze at the stars. When you finally hit Spore’s sprawling Space Stage, it’s like booting into a completely different game that you somehow already know how to play. Even at its most complex, however, this becomes a shallow four-button game of Simon Says in which you press the button that corresponds to the instrument your audience signals you to play.įortunately this stage will end before you lose interest–it takes maybe an hour to polish off–and it’s enlivened by the most amusing animations in the game, as tribe members perform flamenco dances around fire pits, retinues throw flowers and frolic as they trot off to “gift” another tribe, and music that suggests Elmer Berstein’s theme from the movie The Magnificent Seven cues each time you domesticate a creature and march it away to a corral. ![]() Playing musical instruments to impress other tribes is mildly diverting the first couple of times you do it. Combat in the Tribal Stage is essentially one-dimensional (attack tribes that don’t like you and raze their village centers to advance your own prospects) and this fact makes forming alliances with them a more substantive tactic. |