5/15/2023 0 Comments Best gaming desktops 2014![]() ![]() ![]() CybertronPC Shockwave GM1213HĪnd we’re back to the Cybertron gaming computers and this one’s a little rocket. You can check this one out at Amazon for more details. It also has a 3.2GHz Intel Core i5-4440 processor to keep things running as smooth as possible, but I am a bit disappointed with its HDD: 500 GB only, but there’s also a 120 GB SSD. It’s also a bit of a show-off, and you should take that literally, since you can look under the hood thanks to its transparent design, where you will see the beautiful Nvidia GTX650 graphics card at work. The force will be with you with the iBuyPower gaming computer which comes with similarly cool, red buttoned gaming keyboard and mouse. And it’s not just the paint and polish that’s nice about it, it’s also beautiful on the inside! This means Intel Core i5-4570 Processor, 8GB of RAM and a really good NVIDIA GeForce GTX660 Graphics card. There’s nothing stealthy about this little gaming beast that comes packed with lights and a nice combo of a gaming keyboard and gaming mouse. The perfect match for a gamer – so check it out here. It’s fast, powerful, efficient and quiet. It also comes with an Aerocool Gaming Mid-Tower Case w/650 Watt Power Supply that really makes it look like one of the good guys (or bad guys) from Transformers. It packs a better NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 video card over the similar AMD FX 6300 3.50GHz 6-Core processor and 16 GB of RAM. This one comes with an upgraded and sleek design, as well as some better features. It seems that Cybertron are trying to make me love their gaming desktops. Check it out at Amazon before they have no more to sell. A real candy, actually, despite the not so amazing design. That’s why we have the Hellion GM1213C on this list, with some really good features, like NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2GB dedicated graphics card, an AMD FX 6300 3.50GHz 6-Core processor, no less than 16GB of RAM and Windows 8 pre-installed. ![]() I am not the biggest fan of CybertronPCs, to be honest, but their products are of high quality and for the price asked, I shouldn’t complain too much. A good by at almost $715 at Amazon (with an applied discount of $85.00!) Hellion GM1213C It also has 8GB of DDR3 RAM, WINDOWS 7 installed and a decent GTX 650 video card with 1GB of dedicated memory. Plus the ThermalTake V3 case to keep things cool when everything else gets hot on your screen. And if you care about the looks of your gaming rig, then this one certainly has them. Hurry to get it, this baby will sell like cold Mountain Dew on a hot gaming day! CPU Solutions AM3+ FX-4130Ī gaming computer with a 3.8 GHz AMD Quad-Core Processor can’t be wrong. Add to that the 3.6 GHz FX-Series Quad-Core FX-4100 processor and you have a really good gaming desktop for an insanely low price. Priced at just $700, the PC Defender comes packed with one of the best Graphic Cards on this list: the Sapphire Radeon 7750, which is considered a top 50 Graphics Card over at Futuremark. One of the best deals that we managed to find, and clearly the one to start with. Just don’t expect to play the upcoming GTA V for PC on maximum settings, though!) MaxForce PC Defender 7750 So let’s check out the best cheap gaming computers under $1,000 below! (Do have in mind that most of these gaming computers don’t have current generation power, but they do the best job possible for their price. You just choose your favorite based on your budget and are ready to get your game on. We’ve spent hours searching for the best options so that you don’t have to. We’ve decided to come and aid you with the best cheap gaming computers in 2014: all of them under $1,000. 2014 will be an amazing year for gaming and with so many great titles about to be released, you’ll want to spend as little as possible on your gaming computer, to have the money for all the games. ![]()
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5/15/2023 0 Comments Startrail photography![]() ![]() Stars actually move, but you cannot observe their proper motion unless you observe them for many, many years. The Earth rotates around its axis, while the stars appear fixed in the night sky. If you place your camera on a tripod and take a photo of the night sky spanning a few minutes, you will see that stars draw small arcs. It’s easy and you don’t need fast and expensive lenses – and it’s fun. You can still start with that in the digital age. In the times of film photography, almost any astrophotographer – myself included – started by shooting star trails.
![]() ![]() "One Empire, one fleet- only this will guarantee us victory." - Natasi Daala In the next update we'll be talking about the Empire of the Hand for those who are unfamiliar with it from Imperial Civil War. Want to find out more about the mod? Follow us here on Mod Database, join the discussion on our forum or like us on Facebook. Used in concert with a well-organized fleet, Golans can create a defensive position around a planet which is extremely difficult to penetrate. These have historically been found only at the most important of planets, such as Coruscant, Bastion and Muunilinst. This platform is extremely powerful and durable, and capable of holding off even many capital ship types. The final iteration, at 2600 meters, is the Golan III Space Defense Novagaun. Although its damage output increase is not directly proportional to its size increase over the Golan I, its hull integrity is far superior and as a result is able to win against most enemy cruisers in a one on one situation. The second, almost twice as large at 2158 meters, is the Golan II pictured on the right. This platform is sufficient to handle most small corvette and frigate raids, however anything larger is capable of overpowering them. The smallest of these, at 1231 meters is the Golan I, pictured on the left. In these times, the New Republic and Imperial Remnant turn to the Golans for local defense. When you need to defend your planets, often it is unfeasible to maintain a strong fleet presence at all possible targets. We currently have a thread running with some answers for basic questions, available here. In order to track our progress, you can follow the mod on Mod Database, or join the discussions on our forums. ![]() Work on the mod is already well underway. Will you use diplomacy to spread your message of democracy and support your fleet with aid from other galactic powers as the New Republic, take advantage of the speed and vast information archives of the Empire of the Hand, or crush those who would oppose you with the superweapons of the Empire? Each faction features its own unique new unit rosters, tech trees, advantages and disadvantages. Take command of the New Republic, Imperial Remnant and Empire of the Hand in order to gain control of the Star Wars galaxy after the fall of the Emperor at Endor. Meanwhile, on the edges of the galaxy, the Empire of the Hand, set up by Thrawn during his exile in the unknown regions with the covert support of the Chiss Ascendancy and Emperor Palpatine, strives to unite the galaxy in preparation to face outside threats.įrom the creators of Thrawn's Revenge: Imperial Civil War for Star Wars: Empire at War comes Star Wars: Ascendancy, a mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. In the wake of the Empire's collapse, the fledgling New Republic is working to build an entirely new order out of the wreckage. ![]() Instead, the Battle of Endor has left a fractured Empire, with multiple Warlords attempting to carve out sections of the galaxy to form their own personal empires and restore the Empire to its former glory. Many believed the death of Palpatine would mean the end of the war, and the return of the democratic government of the time before the Clone Wars. ![]() 5/15/2023 0 Comments Binary fission example![]() This is termed as zygotic meiosis, in which only zygote is diploid but rest of the life cycle is haploid. This is called gametic meiosis, in which gametes become haploid.īut in some protozoans reduction division occurs in one of the subsequent divisions after formation of zygote. In majority, reduction division occurs shortly before syngamy. Sexual reproduction involves meiotic division reducing the chromosomes to haploid number. ![]() However, there are many protozoans in which sexual reproduction is of regular occurrence. ![]() Most protists (protozoa) can continue to live, multiplying asexually for prolonged periods and may undergo sexual reproduction only at irregular intervals. The two units (male and female gametes) from two separate individuals unite by fusion of their cytoplasm, followed by the union of their nuclei. The modes of reproduction in which two gametes unite to form a new individual is known as sexual reproduction. It may be simple or multiple, exogenous or endogenous. New individuals are produced by separation of a portion of the cytoplasm of the parent organism with a daughter nucleus. The daughter individuals regain the normal size and the number of nuclei is restored by further nuclear division. The multinucleate individual divides into many small multinucleate offspring’s by simple division of cytoplasm independent of nuclear division. Motile spores are known as swarmer’s or swarmospores. ![]() The products are surrounded by a cyst or a resistant covering and termed as spores. The resulting individuals are known as agametes or merozoites. ![]() 5/15/2023 0 Comments Dash challenge hyper light drifter![]() One feature of SNES games that Preston captured is that there is no spoken dialogue, placing more emphasis on the game's music and visuals to tell a story. Preston's goal was to replicate the experience of playing on the SNES, noting that the unit had "amazing, almost perfect games designed for limited environments" which he challenged himself to simulate in Hyper Light Drifter. The player faces increasingly difficult monsters, both in number and ability, requiring the player to hone their tactics to succeed in the game. ![]() Rather than scavenging ammunition from the game world to load the player's guns, the player's ammunition instead charges when hitting enemies and objects with the energy sword. Weaponry includes long-range guns and area attacks. These often require power from rare batteries scattered around the world. The Drifter is equipped with an energy sword and can gain access to other modules that expand their weapon and ability arsenal. The story concept was inspired by lead developer Alx Preston's heart disease, and has been likened by others to Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky, while Preston cites the studio's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as inspiration for the game's world. The player controls the Drifter, a character that has access to technology that has long been forgotten by the inhabitants of the game's world and is suffering from an unspecified illness. Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action role-playing game fashioned after The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, rendered in a pixel art style. A Special Edition port of the game, featuring additional content, was released by Abylight Studios for the Nintendo Switch in September 2018 and for iOS devices in July 2019. The Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X versions were released in March 2016, and the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions in July 2016. Though originally scoped for release in 2014, various improvements in the game and issues with Preston's health set the release back. ![]() ![]() Preston originally launched Kickstarter funding for the title for approximately US$27,000 to develop the title for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux computers, but ended up with more than US$600,000, allowing him to hire more programmers and artists, and expanding the title for console and portable platforms through stretch goals. The game pays homage to 8-bit and 16-bit games, and is considered by its lead developer Alx Preston as a combination of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Diablo. Hopefully this approach can help if you're having a tough time with chain dashes.Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D action role-playing game developed by Heart Machine. Having the sound up in fights and listening to the sounds the enemies make before they attack is a huge help as well. Like I can play the sound in my head before I do it and that helps me time it right. I also like to play games with other music in the background, I found turning any extraneous sound off and having the sound up on HLD and being able to hear the different pitches of the dash sound helped me a lot too. Just knowing how to double and triple dash will help you immensely. During fights you almost never need to do more than a triple dash. Practicing these is far more important than being able to do a ton of dashes in a row (although there are a couple instances where being able to do a long chain of dashes is important). Focus on the dashes and the pause in between. Dash-dash-dash-pause, dash-dash-dash-pause. Same technique with practicing the triple dash, just a slightly different rhythm. The dash-dash-pause, dash-dash-pause should be about the same rythm as a heartbeat. The trick here is to not only focus on the timing between your dashes, but also focus on the timing of the pause, to figure out the shortest pause you can do without making it a triple dash. While running around the world I would just do double dashes over and over. I got much better at chain dashing by somewhat changing my approach: I started thinking about it as single dash, double dash, triple dash, and multi dash (4+ dashes). ![]() I would be able to get a pretty good chain dash going after practicing this for a few minutes, but then when I got in a battle and had to think quickly and react to enemies, all my practice would be thrown out the window and I would start pressing the dash button too quickly again. I would practice chain dashing by trying to do as many as possible in a large area without enemies. For me, the issue was wanting to press the dash button too quickly. When I first started playing HLD I had a tough time chain dashing, especially during fights. ![]() 5/15/2023 0 Comments Will red cover orange hair![]() ![]() It is the only bleach on the market with Bond Protect built in. We would suggest you use a bleach like Brilliant Blondexx. We often hear stories from hairdressers who are unable to lift the hair past orange because they have used an inferior beauty store bleach. This is where using a good quality bleach comes in - as well as sound bleaching knowledge. And then they try to tone or color correct. The most common mistake that stylists make is that they don't lift the hair enough. However, there are 2 important "buts" you need to be aware of: FIRST ISSUE: YOU NEED TO LIFT FIRST WITH A GOOD QUALITY BLEACH.īefore dumping in colors to cancel other colors, it is far better to first lift the hair up as far as it will go. The way you do this is by adding in these "mix" tones to your target color. Q: How does this Help me As a Colorist in a Color Correction Situation? You can add in Green, Blue and Violet to color correct unwanted tones in the hair. Violet cancels out yellow on hair that has been lifted to light blonde & blonde. Green cancels out red on hair that has been lifted to brown or light brown.īlue cancels out orange on hair that has been lifted to dark blonde. You lifted a customer’s hair from dark brown to brown but there is still red left in the hair. You lifted a customer’s hair from dark brown to blonde but there is still orange left in the hair. You lifted a customer’s hair with bleach but there is still yellow left in the hair. The following color neutralization issues are very common in a salon: They are what you get when you bleach or lift hair. Q: How do underlying pigments come into it? This Chart below shows the underlying pigments that you get when you bleach hair.Īs you can also see, the undercoat or brassiness that you get is directly connected with how well you have lifted the hair.Īs you lift the hair up lighter and lighter, the underlying pigment changes from orange, to orange-yellow, to yellow, and then palest yellow.Īs a stylist you should be very familiar with these underlying pigments. We need to use green to neutralize red.We need to use blue-green to neutralize orange.We need to use blue to neutralize yellow-orange.We need to use purple (or violet) to neutralize pale yellow.Is that right? Yes, correct. See the Color Neutralizing Chart below: Q: So I should use the opposite color on the color wheel to color correct. ![]() In plain simple English, certain colors cancel out others. ![]() Or as hairdressers put it, these colors color-correct other colors. The Hair Color Wheel Chart below is a way of showing this relationship.Ĭolors which are on opposite ends to each other on the color wheel will tend to cancel each other out.Īs we say in Hair Color Theory, certain colors neutralize other colors. Q: What is the Color Wheel? How Can I Even Understand it? The Color Wheel is a way of arranging colors to show which colors cancel out which.Įach color has a relationship with every other color. Hair by Elona Taki WATCH HOW TO USE GREEN TO COUNTERACT RED & MAGENTAĬOLOR WHEEL PRINCIPLES IN ACTION PART C - USING GREEN TO CANCEL OUT MAGENTA, ORANGE & RED Hair by Elona Taki WATCH HOW TO USE BLUE BASED ASH BLONDE 7.1b & PURPLE BASED 7VV TO COUNTERACT YELLOW-ORANGEĬOLOR WHEEL PRINCIPLES IN ACTION PART B - USING BLUE AND PURPLE TO COUNTERACT YELLOW-ORANGE WATCH HOW TO USE A PURPLE BASED TONER & SHAMPOO TO COUNTERACT YELLOW HAIRĬOLOR WHEEL PRINCIPLES IN ACTION PART A - USING PURPLE TO COUNTERACT YELLOW They will help you achieve great hair color results - no matter what level your client's hair and how brassy it is!.Ugly Duckling toners and color correctors are powerfully pigmented with blue, purple, green and ash based pigments.Use the guide below to choose which color is the most appropriate for you.After you have done that, use the appropriate neutralizing colors to color-correct.Do this & almost all your color wheel problems will vanish away.So bleaching the hair to lift it properly is therefore the most important first step for fighting red, orange, yellow & brassy hair.In general, it is a good idea to remember that color wheel problems occur because the hair has not been lifted enough.Violet, purple and purple based toners cancel out yellow and pale yellow.Blue and blue based colors and toners cancel out orange and yellow orange.Green and green-based ash cancel out red, magenta and orange.The color wheel shows which colors cancel out which.BULLET-POINT SUMMARY: COLOR WHEEL SECRETS FOR HAIR STYLISTS ![]() 5/15/2023 0 Comments Kate middleton wedding dress![]() ![]() As for jewelry, the Duchess kept it simple with diamond drop earrings and a bare neck to accentuate the dress's intricate upper half. Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen to design Kate Middletons wedding dress The distinctive studded leather belt doubled through the belt loops of her jeans. 2019 Iconic wedding dress aside, one of Kate Middletons most. Kate Middleton Just Arrived at Princess Eugenies Wedding Wearing a Gorgeous McQueen Dress The Duchess of Cambridge never wants to overshadow the bride. She wore her rich brown hair in classic curls, finishing it off with a dreamy tiara and a sheer veil. John Lewis is stocking an 80 dupe for Kate Middletons stunning Gucci gown - YOU Magazine. Select from 1308 premium Kate Middleton Wedding Dress of the. ![]() Middleton's makeup highlighted her ever-present, understated glow, a beauty look she's stayed true to since entering the spotlight. Find Kate Middleton Wedding Dress stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. 88 years of expert advice and inspiration, for every. ![]() The 9-foot train brought just the right amount of drama, as opposed to her royal mother-in-law, Princess Diana's, 25-foot-long version. Kate Middleton wore a second wedding dress during her nuptials to Prince William on April 29, 2011. The victorian-inspired gown featured a strapless sweetheart neckline, a lace long-sleeve overlay, and a flowing a-line hem. While the details of the joyous ceremony will go down in British history forever, so will Middleton's iconic dress, designed by Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen. The Middletons reportedly invested a whopping 250,000 on the elegant lace dress so it makes sense that Kate wanted to pay tribute to her family with her outfit. Three children and a royal sister-in-law later, Middleton's wedding to Prince William in April of 2011 seems like a distant memory. Kate Middleton Wedding Dress (1 - 40 of 702 results) Price () Shipping All Sellers Lilac Pencil Dress inspired by Princess Kate Middletons style (5) 137. A cross between traditional elegance and of-the-moment minimalism, the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding look was right in line with her day-to-day style. Whether you're knee-deep in the stressful process of planning your special day or you're just the daydreaming type, Kate Middleton's wedding dress will inspire you on your search for the perfect gown. While many brides shop for a wedding dress off the rack, Kate's dress was custom-made for her royal wedding. The desire to emulate royal style is nothing new, especially when it comes to bridal inspiration. It takes a lot of effort to craft a dress as stunning as the one Kate Middleton wore when she married Prince William a decade ago. ![]() |