![]() Concocting questionable alternate theories eventually brings Phoenix to the truth, but he tears down the wall separating fact from fiction to come to those conclusions. And though such loyalty is admirable, it creates situations that border closely on the dangerous adage "the end justifies the means." This phrase is uttered by those who have ushered in the dark age of the law, ignoring truth for the greater good, and though Phoenix strongly disagrees with that theory, he is forced to use creative means to avoid guilty verdicts. The bonds of friendship run so deep that even when every piece of evidence is screaming that the defendant's hands are covered in red, the unwavering belief in his or her innocence keeps the attorneys pushing to explain how the crime actually transpired. Trust is often the only thing that keeps Phoenix Wright and his colleagues afloat when odds seem stacked against them. To succeed within the stressful back-and-forth swings is to discover the very essence of truth, and the game masterfully urges you onward to unearth the secrets that lie hidden deep below the surface. From motivations to opportunities to the method for covering up his or her actions, the perpetrator's thought process is eventually unraveled and displayed in detail. Although the committed crimes are incredibly complex in how they were performed, there's an underlying plausibility that makes it easy to accept the outcomes. Following the breadcrumb trails of lies to an ultimate truth gives weight to every objection you utter. Witnesses provide testimony tinged with contradictions, so you must scour your evidence to find the piece that proves they're lying. Verbal sparring within the courtroom rises above the pleasant predictability of the investigative process. Apollo seeks justice no matter what the cost. Off-the-wall dialogue at key moments keeps the mood light even when the characters are grappling with their own limitations. A checklist chronicles exactly what you must accomplish before the next event is triggered, so although the occasional eureka moments stamp exclamation points onto your actions, you're so rarely asked to think beyond the basics that you're left going through the motions until court is in session. Such activities are performed by rote because there's little variance in what's expected of you. Pretrial investigations push you from one disorderly scene to another, and you interview potential witnesses to slowly piece together what actually happened. While scouring a crime scene, you may find a trinket seemingly unrelated to the facts of a murder, but you tuck it in your inventory without question, in case its importance becomes known during the court proceedings. Practicing law within the Phoenix Wright universe requires a cleverness better suited to authors of courtroom drama than to actual barristers. Meet Athena Cykes, a woman who turns her back on floating spaghetti. Dual Destinies expertly balances two narrative extremes, using off-the-wall dialogue at key moments to keep the mood light even when the characters are grappling with their own limitations. Cutting insults hurled at the buffoonish judge by prisoner-turned-lawyer Simon Blackquill inject levity within the heated debates, and spirited newcomer Athena Cykes displays an energetic naivete while she deconstructs the emotions of those who take the stand. Such dramatic events are interspersed with comedic jabs so you're never burdened by these lofty themes. When one of his friends is accused of murdering another, his duty to seek justice goes much further than a mere courtroom could allow. Or is it? The moral quagmire of the law is a difficult road to navigate and Dual Destinies weaves a clever analysis of this fascinating process.Īpollo Justice has sworn to protect those wrongly accused of heinous crimes, but an attorney has only so much power to right injustices. When the end is the only thing that matters, the means you use to arrive at that point isn't important. ![]() Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies explores the twisted path of the judicial system. How can we trust memories that are tempered by emotions, undermined by biases, and torn apart by baseless assumptions? Truth and lies are much closer than people would want to believe, and to pretend otherwise is disingenuous. Reality is nothing more than an unreliable recollection of events by a flawed person. In the dark age of the law, truth has no place within the confines of a courtroom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is very useful for creating vibrato that doesn't have a fixed speed.Īs mentioned above, there is a fourth way to create vibrato only with the air flow control. Values below 0.5 will result into a pitch down and values above 0.5 will result into a pitch up. In this mode, the neutral position (with no pitch change) is the middle value of the knob and a value of 0.5 (and CC at value 64). In reality, a trumpet player changes the shape or position of their mouth on the mouthpiece to change the pitch up and down. This opens a small panel that displays a table and lets you control its duration.ģ- Manual: This is for advanced use and conrol over vibrato. You can edit this envelope in the preferences by clicking on "edit auto vib". ![]() ![]() Right below the knob, there is a small menu with 3 options:ġ- Auto: this enables automatic vibrato and the knob will control how much vibrato is added to the sound.Ģ- Auto time: This is similar to Auto mode, but a time envelope will control the amount of vibrato. Vibrato is controlled with the left knob on the front panel. In some rare cases and when using MIDI files imported from softwares like Sibelius, you only get velocities, so at the bottom of the CC list, we added the possibility to control the air flow with the incoming velocity, just select " VEL".Īlso if for some reason, you want to use the pitch bend as the input CC, you can do so by choosing " P. To enable/disable it, go into the PREFS panel and change the "allow vibrato with air flow" value. When you move the air controller up and down, it will start adding some pitch variation to the sound. We set it to the modulation wheel by default because it's available on almost every digital keyboard, but you can use anything else you like, for example CC2, which is the default for most breath controllers.Īll you need to do is click on the small dot next to the CC number and move a knob or value on your controller.Īs we mentioned above, vibrato can be controlled with the air flow as well. You can of course control this value with different CCs. When set to 0, there will be no sound coming out of VHorns, same as if you didn't blow any air into a trumpet. Air flow is controlled by the middle knob on the front interface. ![]() ![]() ![]() To turn security defaults on, use the drop-down menu to select Enabled. Sign in to the Azure portal Browse to Azure Active Directory > Properties Select Manage Security Defaults Set the Enable Security Defaults. On the right side of the screen, in the Security defaults pane, see whether security defaults are turned on ( Enabled) or off ( Disabled ). In the navigation pane, select Properties, and then select Manage security defaults. Now users will not be forced to configure MFA but remember weak passwords are causing us all major issues so please enable MFA for user accounts as soon as you can. Under Manage Azure Active Directory, select View. Tick an option which most applies to you and click ‘Save’. Now click on ‘Azure Active Directory’ then ‘Properties’ then ‘Manage Security Defaults’. I don't want to use MFA, Conditional Access or anything else. Hello I would like to disable defaults security as users get annoyed by security setup, as Microsoft enabled security by defaults. ![]() If you have a requirement to enable MFA for only specific users, you can also use the per-user. MFA not only for Azure portal logins but for other apps like office 365, MS teams etc. Log into your tenant and go to the Admin console and click in ‘Azure Active Directory’ from the left hand menu. Disable: Security Defaults for users - Office. Security defaults enable MFA for all your Microsoft 365 users. Security defaults are rules, or conditional access policies, which are set by default to help control how users and admins interact with Office 365. Hello everyone, We have security defaults enabled through Active. Here is how to temporally disable the new security default policies to turn off this behaviour. The issue is being caused by a new security default policies being applied to the tenant. I’m constantly setting up new tenants for clients and performing migrations and while enforcing MFA is a great idea and having it enabled by default is good it does cause issues during the configuration stage of a tenant. Have you recently created a new Microsoft 365 or Office 365 account and users are being forced to setup MFA within 14 days despite MFA not being configured? Posted By in Microsoft 365, Office 365 | 4 comments Step 1: Login to Office 365 using global administrator credentials. 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(You can delete the save file via the Extras option on the game start screen if you later wish to reset the game.) Your progress will be saved automatically so that you can continue at the same level you were playing previously when you return to the game in the future, but you must play it in this website again in order to be able to re-use the saved data. Other controls are: Page Up and Page Down = Toggle Quality Home = Return to Castle / Title Screen. The controls for moving Mario are as follows: Cursor Left and Right keys (Arrow keys) = Walk around Up Arrow = Jump Down Arrow = Walk through doors / jump into paintings Space Bar = Use Fludd. Consequently, the game is slow to load all the data for each level, but if you are patient you will hopefully find it worth the waiting. ![]() From there Peach will call us so that we can recover the star, in this game in addition to the classic controls we will have new mechanics such as the jump between walls that became popular for Super Mario Wii U, we will have to meet enemies that we had already faced before, such as the Goombas mushroom-shaped beings that approached us, Koopas turtles that leave their shells on the floor when we crush them and many more enemies, in the first level we will be shown the controls and new techniques for mario which we will have to learn in order to pass the next levels, in the first world we will find ourselves in a valley where daisies and butterflies will be around the surroundings, we will have to jump platforms that rise with our weight to advance, we can also collect red coins which will give us an object if we collect them all, we can take a helicopter-style jump if we press Q at the time of jumping, in the different worlds mario will have to solve different puzzles that will get in the way, you can get points by collecting coins or crushing Goombas that we will find by the world, Mario Will advance through the different worlds to find the Star that Bowser stole and will need your help once again, the game has graphics rendering so that a normal computer can run it without any problem.This is a huge game with multiple levels to explore. Dangerous would give the greatest power to whoever got it, after the toad left Bowser grabs the star and goes with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The difference is that instead of bikers, SpeedRunners sees you play as superheroes who swing and slide across a variety of cityscape obstacle courses. SpeedRunners is, in essence, the same concept as Trials: players race against each other, attempting to gain a lead big enough to force your opponents off of the screen. The dirtbike-based gameplay is delightfully intuitive, and the way the scoring system is set up - players lose points if they lag behind enough to fall offscreen - leads to plenty of intensely competitive moments. ![]() The base game offers a decent selection of multiplayer tracks for you to play, but thanks to Trials’ support of user-generated content, there is a vast library of fan-made tracks to keep things fresh. Trials: Fusion is a platform racing game which supports up to four players locally, and, like all of the games on this list, uses same-screen multiplayer - so there’s no need to worry about those annoyingly small split-screen windows. In no particular order, here are five of the best: This doesn’t mean the feature is dead dominating the competition online is all very well and good, but nothing quite beats seeing the look of hopelessness on your friend’s face in real-time as you get your 7th win in a row on FIFA.Īfter three years in student accommodation, and more time playing video games with my housemates than I’d care to mention, I’ve acquired a pretty good library of local multiplayer games. Sadly, including a split-screen or same-screen mode simply isn’t as worthwhile to developers as it used to be - why bother with letting multiple people enjoy a copy of your game when online multiplayer ensures many will buy their own? It has been re-added to the post body.Ever since online multiplayer developed to become a staple of big-budget games, local multiplayer has become somewhat of a rarity. Update: A sentence from an earlier draft of this story that further clarified Nichiporchik's reasons for piracy was accidentally omitted. SpeedRunners is on Steam Early Access right now, so if you'd like, you can put your money down now, later, or, should you choose the free version, never. The free version will only support local multiplayer and offline bots. In the case of SpeedRunners, that service is online multiplayer. ![]() Nichiporchik wrote that he's pirating the game to see if it runs on his computer, and if it does, he'll "happily" buy the game off Origin. In the case of Battlefield 4, the service is multiplayer. Nichiporchik wrote that he believes players will spend money - sometimes eagerly so - as long as they see value in a service being provided. The free version of SpeedRunners that Tiny Build plans to launch won't be the full game, mind you. Don't buy into developers blaming piracy for lost sales, it's just silly." We got dozens of e-mails from people who found it via TPB and bought it afterwards, sending really positive comments about how funny the joke was. "During the pre-Steam release of No Time To Explain, we simply created a version with pirate hats and put it on The Pirate Bay. Nichiporchik explained that the decision to release a version of SpeedRunners for free was due to the pirating community's reaction to their last game. In fact, it's because of piracy that Tiny Build Games will be publishing a version of SpeedRunners, a multiplayer-focused game developed by DoubleDutch Games where you play as a superhero racing other heroes to the scene of a crime, for free. That may seem a strange way to introduce a discussion about piracy - and it is - but Nichiporchik wanted to make a point: piracy, he argues, is not a black-and-white issue. "I am pirating Battlefield 4 right now," an email from Tiny Build Games' Alex Nichiporchik began. ![]() ![]() Markzware software has a reputation for working better than expected. My own experience is that this warning is more an expression of modesty that a serious disclaimer. In common with the other Markzware conversion tools I have used, (which includes InDesign to Quark, Quark to InDesign, and PageMaker to Quark), this newly released PUB2ID v1.5 comes with the warning from Markzware that the document conversion will not be exact but the time saved will be considerable, especially if there is a large document or a large number of small documents to convert. ![]() Because of the different ways that the various publishing programs handle the same tasks, like text flow, fonts and runaround, there is a distinct possibility that the converted document will need to be tweaked a bit in order to get it looking exactly as you want it, but the minor adjustments will be far less arduous than totally re-creating the document. This product converts and transforms files created with Microsoft Publisher into an Adobe InDesign file on either Macintosh or Windows platforms. If you need to work with documents originally created in Publisher the PUB2ID document conversion technology will save you countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. Items converted from Publisher include: page size, positioning, color models, fonts and styles, text attributes and tables, layers, word wrap, linked text boxes as well as automatic extraction of images embedded in the Publisher file. ![]() PUB2ID translates the intricate details of the content within the Microsoft Publisher document and instantly re-creates it within InDesign. No more re-creating documents from scratch PUB2ID gives you a big head-start. The conversion is enabled with a single click using the InDesign File-> Open menu. ![]() It provides a quick, easy and affordable method for you to migrate all your Microsoft Publisher content into new Adobe InDesign documents. PUB2ID works with InDesign v4.x or 5.x (CS2 or CS3). In order to use it you will need a Mac running Tiger or better or a PC running Windows 2000, XP or Vista and 250 Megs of hard drive space. The latest offering from Markzware, called Microsoft Publisher to InDesign, or PUB2ID, is a plug-in for Adobe InDesign that can convert all of your Microsoft Publisher into Adobe InDesign documents so you can update and work with them. When it’s time to go beyond what Microsoft Publisher can offer in the way of professional document design, it has typically been necessary to rebuild such publications from scratch in InDesign, a process that’s both slow and fraught with the possibility of introducing errors. This means that documents created with Microsoft Publisher can not generally be imported into more popular applications like Adobe InDesign. Publisher’s proprietary file format is, unfortunately, unsupported by most other applications. This reflects Microsoft’s emphasis on Publisher as an easy-to-use and less expensive alternative to the “heavyweights” and also its focus on the small business market where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents. Publisher is included in high-end editions of Microsoft Office. ![]() Publisher 2007 also includes the capability to output commercial press quality PDF with embedded fonts as an optional download from the Microsoft website. Recent versions of the program have greater capabilities concerning color separations and proper process coloring output. Microsoft Publisher, a Windows only application, has historically been less well-liked among professional designers and high end commercial print shops when compared with other desktop publishing applications like PageMaker, InDesign & QuarkXPress but its very ubiquity in the corporate environment ensures its wide usage. The magic part is that Markzware plug-ins do it quickly, accurately, and elegantly. As such, many of you may not be familiar with their products but in the world of desktop publishing Markzware is a name associated with a long history of wonderful document conversion utilities that make it possible to radically reduce the time it takes to import and use text and pictures from documents created in other desktop publishing applications.įor people who use InDesign, Quark and PageMaker, Markzware makes plug-ins that make it possible to easily import content and convert entire documents between creator applications without losing the appearence of the original document. Markzware is famous for their FlightCheck software and their PM2Q, ID2Q and Q2ID plug-ins for QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. Clarke put it, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic). (In fact, when my mother asks me about a lot of stuff she sees me doing on the computer I tell her that its magic. In past issues of the DoubleClick we have looked at a lot of scathingly brilliant software from Markzware. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why does it say I only have 100GB? I wrote them a support ticket about this, but never heard back.įour days later, I received another automated message, which said, “Detected copyright infringement.”ġ) Notice how it says “Reminder” at the top. If you remember from above, I paid for a 3TB lifetime plan. you’re using 1.1 TB of your 100 GB!” And then tells me to upgrade my account. What happened instead? They sent me several confusing automated messages. I contacted Degoo asking about the Windows app, and they never responded. It is no longer supported by them and so you use it at your own risk.) Degoo ignores support questions (NOTE: there is an unofficial third-party website that has an older copy of it (), but that is NOT provided by Degoo. But when I went to, I found the Windows version was completely removed. It just stopped working.Īs a former IT Administrator, I first thought the app became corrupted and needed to be uninstalled and reinstalled. ![]() There was no communication or warning to customers that this service was going away. A Degoo (32 bit) process would run, but it didn’t do anything and the GUI client controls were gone. The saddest part is I found this out the hard way when the app/software wouldn’t open on my file server. I don’t have time to waste by going through all my folders to figure out what’s new and then have to open a browser to upload everything one at a time. Sure, you can log into their website and upload files manually on a PC through a web browser, but that’s not what I purchased. Degoo doesn’t have an online support system, and fails to respond to emailsĭegoo pulled an illegal bait-and-switch by removing the PC App and went solely mobile.Your backed up data is being looked at by Degoo.Degoo deletes “lifetime” accounts without cause.Degoo removed their PC/Windows APP without warning.Or so, that’s how it was when I purchased it. Simply install their Degoo.exe client, open the GUI to set what files and folders to backup, and it monitors your system for new/updated files to automatically add to the cloud. I was looking to backup files on my PC, and they offered an automated solution. ![]() In my case, I purchased the Degoo Premium: Lifetime 3TB Backup Plan from StackSocial in September of 2017. If you’re like me, you’ve come across a lifetime deal for cloud backup that’s too good to pass up. ![]() ![]() ![]() (You can use this effect intentionally to create rays of light around a light source.) Closing the aperture creates greater depth of field but at the cost of defocus and artifact within that range of focus. The small details within the range of focus will begin to blur and light artifacts will appear. The other problem caused by small apertures is diffraction-a bending and scattering of light waves as they pass through the tiny aperture. To achieve proper exposure, a small aperture needs to be compensated with a slower shutter speed, increasing blur, or with a high ISO, increasing image noise. It's not easy: there are always trade offs you have to make to make an image. Remember, the basic job of a lens is to force light through a small, sharp hole. Using a small aperture also creates its own problems. Or, if you focus at a point in the distance, you can get a foreground that isn't sharp. So even by using the smallest aperture, depending on the focal length, you might still be working with a relatively narrow range of focus. Also, the range of focus is not affected just by aperture, but also by a lens's focal length: the longer the focal length, the narrower the apparent range of focus. So by focusing 1/3 of the distance into the scene, something in front or behind or both could still be out of focus, and that something could be an important part of your composition. Even at f/11 on a 40mm lens it's possible to get a background that's out of focus.Ī range of focus might not-and often doesn't, even at the maximum depth of field-cover the whole scene from foreground to background. The combination of that and a small aperture (which increases depth of field) should get most of the scene in focus, shouldn't it? Well, yes. The 1/3–2/3 rule of depth of field says that 1/3 of a lens's range of acceptable focus exists in front of the focal point and 2/3 of the range is behind the focal point. ![]() If maximum depth of field is what you're after, you might be inclined to close the lens's aperture as far as it will go (f/22, for example) and focus 1/3 of the distance into the image. And if your choice is to have maximum depth of field in a scene-as much as possible from foreground to background in focus-you need to understand hyperfocal distance. To maximize the value of autofocus and get what you want in the image in focus, you need to choose the focal point. But there are plenty of situations where autofocus and your camera's programming will not give you the best point of focus or the point of focus that meets your artistic intent. Your camera's programming may override that default by choosing the focal point based on certain algorithms for example, if something like a face appears in your scene, your camera may choose that point as the focal point. Autofocus uses edge or contrast detection to sharpen focus, so if left to choose the focal point for itself, autofocus will choose to focus on the most prominent details in the scene. Autofocus, however, only takes care of one step in composing a focused image: it focuses the lens on the point chosen for it. Modern autofocus is awesome and has removed much of the manual finessing from focusing shots. There are several types of photography where the hyperfocal distance is useful, including: architectural and landscape photography, night photography, street photography, and product photography. If that's a bit dense don't worry, I'm about to unpack it all. By focusing on this optimal point-the hyperfocal point-as much of the scene as is possible for that lens and aperture setting will be in acceptable focus from near to far. The hyperfocal distance of a lens is the distance from the camera lens to an optimal point of focus that maximizes the depth of field in the image. To find the hyperfocal distance, and how this method of focusing works in the real In this tutorial you'll learn why hyperfocal distance still matters in the age of digital, how When you want to maximise depth of field, you need to know how to find and use your lens's optimal focal point-the hyperfocal distance. Just because your camera can focus for you doesn't mean you should let it do everything. ![]() |