![]() You can create Action Blocks to say something out loud, such as "Hello my name is." Your text will be sent to Google to convert to a voice file. Set up an Action Block to say something out loud Learn how to choose what to share with your Google Assistant. Select the services that you want to use with Action Blocks. In your device settings app, select Apps & notifications Assistant See all assistant settings Services. Tip: In some cases, you need to give the Google Assistant permission to work with other services on your device.
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![]() The credit card has a valid number if the total can be divided by 10 and if not then do not process the credit card transaction. Total your list of numbers while excluding the checksum digit.And the sum of the two digits will be five. If you have a credit card with 15 digits, just double the results of digits in a number greater than 10, add the two digits of the new number together, and write that result into your list.įor example, if the number on the card is 7, duplicating it will be 14.If you have a credit card with 16 digits, just double the amount of each digit from right to left.List each digit of your credit card number, starting with the left of the checksum and moving to the left.Write down the last digit of your credit card which is the checksum digit that helps to check the remainder.There are two ways that a credit card validator works:. The working principle of a Credit Card Validator is very simple as it uses the Luhn Algorithm to determine the validity of a card using the account number and checksum. It supports all major credit card brands such as VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, JCB. ![]() The algorithm used in Credit Card Validator is the Luhn algorithm or mod 10 algorithm which is a simple checksum formula that determines the validity of a card using the account number and checksum digits. Credit Card Validator helps implementing validations for the credit cards, variety of identification numbers such as credit card numbers, IINs (Issuer Identification Numbers) and BINs (Bank Identification Numbers), prefixes, etc through the Luhn algorithm. ![]() ![]() Lastly, working in text makes it easy to quickly line up and identify changes between different versions of a script. This allows the writer the convenience of quickly reverting to a previous version of their text based on date or content changed. ![]() That is, they only save the changes to the original text file, not the text file itself. nightcrawler-001, nightcrawler-002, nightcrawler-003, and so on), versioned text files save the delta of each update. Instead of having to constantly resave your screenplay under a new name (e.g. Those familiar with Git or Subversion will recognize the benefits and power of writing this way. In addition, working with text files allow you the option of versioning your screenplay. They will never render themselves useless the moment bloated screenwriting software goes the way of print publications and cassette tapes. Besides granting the writer the option of choosing which editor they love the most 1, working this way insures a text that will stand the test of time. The key to his life of constant writing lies in the use of simply formatted text files that can be opened and edited on any device at any time. The only obstacle is finding a common file format that will work anytime and anywhere. With today's technology and inter-connected devices, the storyteller can practice their craft anytime and anywhere. Last week's article encouraged writers to always be writing. By returning to a simpler time, writers return to the essence of their art. Restrained by their own nescience, these writers miss out on a truly rapturous experience waiting for them with a tool they already own. To many, modern day screenwriting involves a set of Benjamin Franklins and a proprietary file format. SR 203 becomes Minaret Summit Road at Mammoth Mountain Main Lodge, to Minaret Vista and Devils Postpile National Monument (closed in winter)įor Mono County road closuresand information, please visit MonoCounty.ca.gov/roads or call us at 80.SR 203 Main Street in Mammoth Lakes to Mammoth Mountain Main Lodge.SR 158 June Lake Loop (South junction with US 395 will remain open year-round, North junction with US 395 will close with snow).SR 120 E (Mono Mills Road) Benton to Mono Lake and US 395 (will close with snow).SR 167 Mono Lake/ Lee Vining area to Hawthorne, NV.Like Quickmap, it can be used for viewing travel conditions on highways and major streets and roads. SR 182 Bridgeport Reservoir to East Walker River and Nevada The Cruz511 map is modeled on Caltrans Quickmap.SR 270 to Bodie State Historic Park (will close with snow) The Caltrans QuickMap app displays a map of your location along with real-time traffic information including: Freeway speed Traffic camera snapshots Lane closures CHP incidents Changeable.Please check both Caltrans and Yosemite NP websites) SR 120 W Tioga Pass (becomes Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park, and will close with snow.SR 108 Sonora Pass (will close with snow).SR 89 Monitor Pass (will close with snow).US 395 Inyo County to Nevada state line.On the website or phone, please plug in the highway number from the list below: Please always check road conditions before traveling! Please do not rely on GPS, Google or Apple maps, as many seasonal or temporary road closures are not always reflected or accurate.įor State Highway conditions, please check the Caltrans highway conditions website, call the Road Conditions Hotline at 1-800-427-ROAD (7623), or check the Caltrans QuickMap (shows chain controls and R-level). ![]() The Jupyter Notebook has several menus that you can use to interact with your Notebook. For example, if you open a fresh Notebook and run the first cell at the top of the Notebook, the square braces will fill with the number 1. The square braces will auto fill with a number that indicates the order that you ran the cells. When you run a cell, you will notice that there are some square braces next to the word In to the left of the cell. This makes it easy to separate out your code into logical chunks without needing to reimport libraries or recreate variables or functions in every cell. If you have multiple cells in your Notebook, and you run the cells in order, you can share your variables and imports across cells. When I ran the code above, the output looked like this: If you prefer using your keyboard, you can just press Shift + Enter. To execute a cell, you can just select the cell and click the Run button that is in the row of buttons along the top. Running a cell means that you will execute the cell’s contents. You should now see an in-browser dialog titled Rename Notebook. Just move your mouse over the word Untitled and click on the text. Since that isn’t a very descriptive name, let’s change it! This is the title for the page and the name of your Notebook. You will notice that at the top of the page is the word Untitled. Your web page should now look like this: Naming For simplicity’s sake, let’s choose Python 3. On my machine, I happen to have Python 2 and Python 3 installed, so I can create a Notebook that uses either of these. Now that you know how to start a Notebook server, you should probably learn how to create an actual Notebook document.Īll you need to do is click on the New button (upper right), and it will open up a list of choices. Let’s actually create a Notebook now! Creating a Notebook Note that right now you are not actually running a Notebook, but instead you are just running the Notebook server. This will start up Jupyter and your default browser should start (or open a new tab) to the following URL: Your browser should now look something like this: Microsoft Exchange Security´ settings, Source: Microsoftīut I guess, this has nothing to do with the current issue. The cause Microsoft states there is that this problem can occur if the Network Security at Logon setting on the Security tab of the Microsoft Exchange dialog box is set to a value other than Anonymous Authentication. Anyone else with this error pattern? Microsoft's July 2022 support postĪs of July 29, 2022, Microsoft has this support post on the issue of Outlook constantly prompting for a password when trying to connect to Microsoft 365 mailbox. If it occurs there, I'll report here again. Click Sign out (in Outlook the tab is called Account) When signing out of your account in Outlook you may need to manually click Sign In under the Office. I still have also the feedback from Frank via Facebook: I had this last Friday only on the Outlook client on Android. But I user confirmed the issue in my German edition of this article, saying that connections to Exchange Online are affected. Since we specify and set up the complex passwords, the clients do not have them in their heads, of course, so it's a bit tedious.Ĭurrently I don't have any information about the specific Outlook build and environment. No updates have been applied, different Outlook versions (2016/2019) and different Windows versions are in use and nothing has been changed on the accounts. only Outlook) that the password is being requested again. We have already received calls from almost all clients who use Office 365 (Online Plan 1, i.e. German blog reader Stefan mailed me on Augto describe his problem with his customers/users with Outlook as follows: ![]() What is at issue: Does this only affect the systems set up by the reader in question with Microsoft Office 365, or are there others affected. probably since the weekend) want a Microsoft Outlook password. I just received an e-mail from a reader whose customers suddenly (i.e. A quick question for the administrators among the readers. ![]() Audiences and the majority of the major critics were apathetic to the plight of a private investigator who is unable to solve his big case because he is handicapped by his inability to see his own life with honesty. The filmmaker infused elements of his own life into the Night Moves script and his feelings of failure within the Hollywood community. Lost in the shuffle of Byzantine plot mechanics, sundry deceptions, twists, and double crosses was Penn's ruminations on identity and the guttering of American self-respect. until 1975, Night Moves had the misfortune to follow Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1973), Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) into cinemas it emerged during a glut of so-called "neo-noirs" (among these, Dick Richards' Farewell, My Lovely, Stuart Rosenberg's The Drowning Pool, Robert Benton's The Late Show, Michael Winner's The Big Sleep, and Walter Hill's The Driver) films that recalled the postwar noir thrillers but with a contemporary edge. Shot in 1973 on the tail of a writer's strike and unreleased by Warner Bros. ![]() (In the interim, he helmed a segment of the 1973 Olympics documentary, Visions of Eight, filmed in the aftermath of the massacre of Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists during the 1972 summer games in Munich.) Night Moves represented a departure from his earlier focus on lawbreakers - the folk heroes of the Left-Handed Gun (1958) and Bonnie & Clyde, the convict-on-the-run in The Chase (1966), the Turkey Day litterer of Alice's Restaurant (1969) - and focused instead on a tired Los Angeles PI (Gene Hackman) juggling professional and personal mysteries. Penn had absented himself from narrative filmmaking (in truth, from creative endeavors of any stripe) for several years, hot off the success of Bonnie & Clyde (1967) and Little Big Man (1970). Sharp's script had been named as a coy reference to the Universal Pictures executive building, known in the industry as The Black Tower in reworking Sharp's original scenario, a mystery set between the strangely complementary milieux of movie-making and artifact smuggling, was to emphasize a telling bit of business in the script about chess playing and the inability (or disability) of its detective hero in seeing the move he should have made. One of the first things that Arthur Penn did when he inherited the Alan Sharp script The Dark Tower from the director-producer team of Sydney Pollack and Mark Rydell was to change the title to Night Moves (1975). ![]() Jungle Strike is the direct sequel to one of the best-selling helicopter games, Desert Strike. Platform: MS-DOS, Game Boy, PlayStation Portable It was also nominated for the “Simulation of the Year” award in 2000. The game was praised for its artificial intelligence and great flight physics. For those who are wondering, Comanche and Hokum are NATO assigned call signs for American and Russian attack helicopters. It’s a successor to Enemy Engaged: Apache vs. Hokum is one of the two original helicopter simulation games from the Enemy Engaged series. Mode(s) of play: Single-player, multiplayerĮnemy Engaged: Comanche vs. The game provides a complete VR experience. He lost everything, his family, and his identity after a covert mission went wrong.īut now, with the nation’s security at risk, and experimental gunship is his only hope to recover his grief and save the world. Yes, I am talking about the VR setup.Īnyway, Gunship Battle2 VR is an immersive helicopter simulation game in which you play the role of a former secret agent/ pilot named Dylan. Virtual reality is taking the gaming industry by storm, and maybe it’s time to equip yourself with the right tools. ![]() While the game has many flaws, including incorrect descriptions of helicopter models and flight avionics plus clumsy controls, a wide variety of weapons and various in-game features do somehow make up for it, given its age. The game also allows you to use various real-life military tactics based on terrains, such as nap-of-the-earth (low altitude flying) and pop attacks. The mid and late game is filled with several helicopters that will keep your interest alive. This changes as you make progress in the game. The player begins the game by selecting a combat theater and then choosing between single or campaign missions.ĭuring the initial stages, you have access to only one helicopter. It’s an enhanced version of its predecessor, the original Gunship game, released in 1986. Initially released in 1991, Gunship 2000 is one of the oldest helicopter games/simulations you can play. All levels are played in a top-down view. It is a third-person shooting game in which the player controls an armed helicopter with a single objective to destroy enemy buildings and military establishments. First released in 1987, more than three decades ago, the game remains somewhat relevant even now. Sega’s Thunder Blade is perhaps the oldest combat flight simulator on this list. ![]() While military helicopter simulations are more restricted in nature, many fans find them entertaining due to their mission styles and orientation.īelow is the list of the 15 best helicopter games that you can play right away. There are two types of helicopter games available that you can play military and civilian. Other attributes such as hovering and lateral flying make them suitable for use in both urban and remote areas.īefore we can get started, let’s talk about the nature of the game first. Unlike airplanes (fixed-wing aircraft), helicopters are powered by rotors, which allows them to take off and land vertically. If you’re looking for the best helicopter games/simulation out there, then you’re at the right place. ![]() ![]() And for this spirit, the gods condemned him to the most rote and eternally frustrating task in the afterlife. Descriptions of his mortal exploits indicate he was a clever man who was good to his kingdom, loved life and desired to remain on Earth for as long as possible. Yet Sisyphus had no intention of returning to the underworld once his task was complete, and he lived for many more years before Hades tracked him down and sentenced him to the stone. Because such an oversight was considered extremely impious in the Greek tradition, Sisyphus convinced Hades to let him go back to Earth to correct this error. When Ares, god of war, finally rescued Hades and Sisyphus perished, he asked his wife to forgo the traditional funeral rites. But Sisyphus tricked the god of the underworld and held him captive so that no mortal could die. Unfortunately, Zeus himself had absconded with Asopus’ daughter, and after Sisyphus led Asopus to her rescue, Zeus sent his brother Hades to bring Sisyphus to his death. The king of Corinth, Sisyphus once offered to help the river-god Asopus find his lost daughter in exchange for a spring of fresh water for his kingdom. But what kind of man was Sisyphus? What did he do to incur the gods’ wrath? Accounts differ.Īccording to Camus, Homer described Sisyphus as “the wisest and most prudent of mortals.” Other translations of The Iliad use “wiliest.” While the connotations of these two descriptions differ vastly, Sisyphus was at the very least intelligent. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.” So begins existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’ famous essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. “The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. It expands on the previous games with Om Nom no longer being a static stage object, additional monster characters and a more dynamic environment. It sees Om Nom travel back to the time of his ancestors, which means in terms of gameplay that players now feed candy to two monsters rather than to only one.Ĭut the Rope 2 – Unexpected Adventure (2013 iOS, 2014 Android) Ĭut the Rope 2 was released on 19 December 2013 for iOS devices. The third sequel, Cut the Rope: Time Travel, was released on April 17, 2013. As of May 2015, Cut the Rope games have been downloaded more than 600 million times and had surpassed over a billion downloads by 2018. The objective of the Cut the Rope games is to feed candy to a little green creature named Om Nom while collecting stars. It consists of the original game of the same name (2010) published by Chillingo, Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift (2010), Cut the Rope: Experiments (2011), Cut the Rope: Time Travel (2013), Cut the Rope 2 (20 Android), My Om Nom (20 Android), Cut the Rope: Magic (2015), and Cut the Rope Remastered (2021). Activision ( Cut the Rope: Triple Treat)Ĭut the Rope is a series of physics-based puzzle video games developed by entertainment company ZeptoLab for several platforms and devices.Once the game is launched, the company will make sure it stays on top by managing player feedback and effectively announcing forthcoming updates.īecome a subscriber of App Developer Magazine for just $5.99 a month and take advantage of all these perks. As a publisher, ZeptoLab also takes on all marketing and promotional activities, including playtests, localization, PR materials and community engagement. The company is offering the assistance of its top specialists: from product managers and game designers to analysts and our user acquisition team. In return, ZeptoLab will guide creators through the final stages of development and help their game become a market-ready product. If you believe that your game fits the bill - just drop us a line!” ![]() We want to publish games that we can be proud of later on and that offer a unique and compelling player experience. The final (and probably the most important) aspect we’re looking at is innovation. The stage of development is also important: the more finished the game is, the more chances it has of being published. Which criteria should the game meet to be published by ZeptoLab? Well, we are looking for the projects that have been designed specifically for mobile devices, since our key platforms are iOS, Google Play and Amazon. We try to review every game, even if it doesn’t quite meet the criteria, and help developers identify problems and potential hidden strengths. “First of all, no submission is left ignored. “We offer a very personalized approach to each game,” says Mike Sviblov, ZeptoLab’s Head of Publishing. ZeptoLab has been “soft-launching” their publishing activities for about a year by participating in publishing conferences and accepting small numbers of submissions by email, but now the company is ready to go full speed with their program by opening a dedicated website. ZeptoLab, the app gaming company behind Cut the Rope franchise and the mobile multiplayer hit King of Thieves, announced that they have officially entered the publishing business by opening a website where mobile game developers from all over the world can now leave their submissions. |