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![]() ![]() I didn't have any need to contact customer service. I received all my orders quickly so I was happy with their shipping policy.Įach package is insured and large orders will require a signature upon delivery. Although it depends on your payment method and what you are buying. If your order is under $199 then the shipping fee is around $9.95.Įvery order ships quickly- typically within one business day. Free shipping is a good feature but it's also fairly standard for most bullion retailers. It seems that for large orders of junk silver ($100 face value and up) the coins are going to be packaged in bags.Īll domestic orders ship free if the amount is over $199. The bags are secure, durable, and tie-able. You can also buy coin wrappers separately. The bags work fine, but they take up a lot more space than the coin wrappers. Junk silver can either come in coin wrappers or bags, but typically they will come in the cloth money bags. I personally just took out the tubes and stashed them in my safe. The Apmex holder is nice but it probably won't fit inside your coin safe. This is what I bought and it's called a mini monster box. Apmex also provides an additional plastic holder that contains 5 tubes of 20 coins for a total of 100 coins. American Silver Eagle coins will come in tubes straight from the US Mint, so they are one of the best coin collector gift ideas. Their buy-back program ensures that they keep a good inventory. So needless to say, APMEX has an outstanding selection. They have over 10,000 different items for sale. You can find just about any coin you could want, including rare coins. SelectionĪPMEX probably has the largest coin selection of any online retailer. The coins looked beautiful and this is exactly what I expected. This is standard for all the large dealers. bullion coins came in brand new condition straight from the US Mint. For the circulated coins you can find premiums that are reasonable. Some coins were in better shape than others, but that was to be expected in a large bag.Īpmex has great deals on junk silver. If you see a bad coin that you can send it back to Apmex but I never had to do this. The coins came in good condition- not great but not poor either. I bought circulated silver halfs, quarters, and dimes. However Apmex does have good prices on bars and they are a good option to consider. I have bought all different types of coins from Apmex, both silver and gold coins. I've bought bullion coins from Apmex on several occasions over the years, and here I will review my experience. But before you buy from them it's important to read reviews and learn about their policies. Apmex is one of the most popular and reputable online bullion dealers. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The input data will never get close to filling all of that up. ![]() It nearly is, because it is a 32K * 8 SRAM. You can assume for the purposes of the Pseudocode above that the RAM storage into which the received characters is being placed is limitless. Begin working through the RAM from address 0 and processing the received data ![]() Re-load HardwareTimer with uiTimeOutValueĪll data now received. Receive and store it in RAM location 'uiAddress' If there is a serial byte waiting to be received Load hardware timer 'HardwareTimer' with value equivalent to uiTimeOutValue // (assume it is a downcounter) Read serial input bytes until 'start' character is received. If I were going direct to the hardware on Arduino or on any other processor like a PIC I would do something like: (Pseudocode) If no more appear to be coming, then the receive phase of the operation ends The only thing which makes the last character unique is that it will not be followed by any more characters, so I want to determine that by timing the interval since the last character was received. I want to do it this way because the material being received contains no information about its length / size and no special 'end of stream' marker character - the final byte of incoming information is equally likely to have any value from 0x00 to 0XFF. If the time since the last received byte exceeds that set interval, that is how the code determines that the sender is not going to send any more. Once the start character has been detected the code then needs to carry on receiving single raw bytes for as long as they continue to arrive within a set time interval. The code will initially look forever for the 'start' character and if it receives any other character in the meantime then it will discard that character and carry on looking for the start character. Even if there are more in the buffer, it only reads one at a time. Just ignore the comments at the top of the program.In the scenario described, the code is receiving single raw bytes one at a time. If it does you might try a higher value resistor such as 5600. AFAIK the presence of the resistor will not interfere with genuine serial data. The reason for connecting to 5v (rather than GND) is because the serial system normally idles HIGH. And I think that would be a suitable solution for you. When I connected Rx2 to the 5v pin via a 4700 ohm resistor the input from Serial2 ceased. This led me to think that the input pin for Rx2 is floating and creating spurious values. That continues even after I remove the piece of wire. When I stick a piece of wire into the socket of pin 17 (Rx2) it starts showing 63 characters in the buffer and showing a value of -1 in the variable rec. When I re-start the Mega nothing appears from Serial2. get the first two bytes and convert to an int board, arduino:avr:mega:cpu=atmega2560 I have just tried this program on my Mega // python-build-start Serial.println("something came through") put your setup code here, to run once: When using this, it would just go into the function and stay there. It is my understanding, if nothing is being sent, then serial.available returns 0 and therefore doesnt satisfy the loop conditions. This works, but my problem is, if nothing is being sent by the mini - or even if I pull out the rx tx connections, somehow the code still goes into the serial.available() loop, and it says that the incoming byte is 0. My mega sends a signal to the mini to get the mini to send back 'T' to the mega via serial. Im trying to connect a mega adk, and a pro mini together with txrx. ![]() ![]() Icon=/home/YOURNAME/netbeans-7.0/nb/netbeans.pngĬhmod u+x /home/YOURNAME/.local/share/applications/netbeans. Nano /home/YOURNAME/.local/share/applications/sktopĪnd add the following with some minor changes of your own:Įxec=/home/YOURNAME/netbeans-7.0/bin/netbeans Open a terminal and execute the following: Ubuntu 18.04 comes with default open jdk11 installed and set as default java. Netbeans is directly dependent on Oracle Java and has tight coupling. Run the following command to install Oracle Java (JDK) 8 to your system and update the repository database package. JDK8 is required to install NetBeans 8.0.2 (JDK9 is not compatible). The primary reason for this problem is java dependency. Installing NetBeans on Ubuntu Using apt There are some prerequisites for installing NetBeans. I tried many ways changing the configuration. ![]() For older versions than Netbeans 7.1 you’ll must proceed with the steps below. Same problem with me as well after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04. Close Netbeans after installation.Īs of Netbeans 7.1 the file described below is automatically created with also the correct permissions. By default, Apache NetBeans is not available on Ubuntu 22.04 base repository. Select the downloaded Unity launcher plugin there and install it. Open Netbeans and go to Tools -> Plugins -> Downloads -> Add plugin. Go ahead and launch terminal and run this command to update Ubuntu core. Unity will forget the link on reboot, so the icon disappears. Netbeans will see that it’s already opened, so it will not start another instance, but this way it’s still dirty and slow. If you click on the icon again, it will try to start a new instance of Netbeans. NetBeans on Ubuntu provide an Integrated Development Environment to create desktop and mobile applications using Java, PHP and other programming languages. You can browse the reconstructed source code with the JD-GUI for. ![]() ![]() To add Netbeans to the Unity launcher in Ubuntu 11.10 is unfortunately not as easy as executing the application and click “Stick in launcher”. JD-GUI is a standalone graphical utility that displays Java source codes of. ![]() ![]() ![]() The marketing screen shots do show the GFX in-game can look stunning. I don't think I'd have picked the proposed new gameplay mechanic for built-not-bought, but time will tell how that pans out. I also prefer real life camera angles, so I hope we don't get the lame rotating non-fixed cameras. So I'm hopeful the game will perform smooth in all scenarios. I also only play at 1080P, as I prefer native 1:1 pixels. I drive all my other titles with pad, so I want this from Forza too. But if I want them off - then that should be off. Put assists in the menu for those who want them. I just want to be able to play the game with the pad with the assists off, and have full control. The alloys in the main looked dull, and didn't seem convincing "real world" lighting when the light hit them to me. The Audi one at the new track looked poop to me. So, no matter what happens (famous last words) it will run 60fps locked. The one bonus about Forza is, they always run with 60fps frame time. When the creator cares more about the night stars, building cars which take 6 months work, and the game can't even run a locked 60fps - then it was time (overdue) for me to leave the GT wagon once and for all. I sold my PS5 disc and GT7! I wasn't happy with it. (But to be fair, since Unleashed, sonic didnt made ANY good main line game) JUST LIKE SONIC FRONTRIERS BEING AN EMPTY OPEN WORLD, And a crappy mixture of every other game gimmic & features That copies EVERYTHING from Shadow of the colossus, FarCry 3, Touhou.Īnd its levels, THE SPIRIT OF THE FRANCHISE, being nothing more than a bunch of reused assets from Generations and Forces (Brain Damage) JUST Like Cyberpunk 2077 BEING A COMPLETE CAOS on its first YEAR AND HALF Just like STARFIELD using a 30 YEAR OLD GRAPHIC ENGINE from morrowind Just Like Pokemon AAA Company releasing a buggy plain unfinished mess Just like Halo Infinite Taking 3 years to be more DECENT than Halo 4. Just Like GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition Being a Bad Joke Just Like Diablo 4 Being a disrespect to the Blizzard Fans G T 7 is not a Good Game, and FM8 will not be a Good Game IM TIRED OF SEEING THIS ABSURD CONSOLE WARS This is also helped by its availability - while Gran Turismo 7 is a PS5 exclusive, Forza Motorsport is going to be available on Xbox Series X | S, but also on PC via the Xbox store and, for the first time, Steam, on October 10th, 2023. That is the aforementioned RPG-like element: Car XP can buy upgrades, but if racers feel like the bought the wrong setup, they can trade the XP back in instead of being stuck with upgrade parts they have no use for - like re-skilling a character in a role-playing game.Ĭombined with the changes that have been made under the hood, such as the vastly-increased fidelity of the tire model, the new Forza has the potential to become something big. However, Esaki has emphasized that players' vehicles are to be "built, not bought" - so it is not going to be about just buying cars and upgrading them afterwards, but also improving them by driving them. ![]() Meanwhile, Forza's Creative Director Chris Esaki confirmed that there would be no microtransactions to gain in-game currency in the new Motorsport, taking the opposite route compared to GT7.įorza Motorsport has made big improvements to its tire system, AI, graphics and sound engine, as well as revamped its campaing mode - the Builders Cup career mode introduces practice sessions that help learn a car and track combination, a car XP system that bears some similarities to that of RPGs - as OverTake also explains in the video below - and the Challenge the Grid mode that lets players choose their starting position on the grid for more or less rewards.īig PotentialAt its core, Forza will likely still be about collecting cars, just like the series always has been. ![]() No Microtransactions for In-Game CurrencyStill, it seemed that Polyphony Digital and Sony had moved away from what most players wanted out of the franchise. Initially, cars could not be sold either, which was later remedied. Microsoft's premier racing series is the answer to Sony's Gran Turismo, and the upcoming release could be its chance to take the throne as the king of racing games: GT7 has been criticized for its excessive in-game cost of cars, microtransactions and an always-online requirement for singleplayer modes. Gran Turismo 7 has been out for over a year now, and it has met its fair share of criticism since its release - is it time for Forza to strike? Two of the most popular racing game franchises in the world go head to head once again when Forza Motorsport's latest iteration is released in October. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, there are factors such as asset valuation, the timing of a firm's asset purchase that affects this ratio. This is due to the fact that this ratio is affected by several circumstances such as the life cycle of a company, life cycle of a product, plant capacity & relative sales. Interpreting the fixed asset turnover ratio is not easy. In general, it is used by analysts to measure operating performance.įormula: - Net Sales / Average Fixed Assets It tells the efficiency, with which the fixed assets are employed. It either may be overstocking or having an issue with sales.įixed Asset Turnover tells how much amount a company needs to invest to generate 1 rupee of sales. A lower inventory turnover ratio is an indicator that a company is not managing its inventory well. Higher the ratio shows better efficiency in clearing inventories. It also expresses the relationship between the cost of goods sold and inventory, and this denotes efficiency in inventory management.įormula: - Cost of goods sold / Average inventory Inventory turnover ratio explains how many times a company has sold and replaced inventory during a given period. However, a very high ratio also tells that the company is facing a liquidity crunch. It may also indicate that the firm is not getting favorable credit terms from its suppliers. It establishes a relationship between net credit annual purchases and average accounts payables.įormula: - Net Credit purchases / Average accounts payablesĪ higher ratio indicates the company’s ability to keep cash on hand for a longer time, and preferable. In other words, the matrix shows the speed at which a company pays its suppliers. The accounts payable turnover ratio is used to see how efficiently a company is at paying its suppliers and short-term debts. Though accounts payable are liabilities, their trend is important as they represent an important source of finance for operating activities, thereby affecting operating efficiency. Account Payable Turnover/ Creditors Turnover: -Īccounts payable is short-term debt that a company owes to its suppliers and creditors. A low ratio indicates the company is having difficulty in collecting its dues or being too liberal in granting creditĢ. If business normally extends credit to customers, the payment of accounts receivable is likely to be the most important source of cash flows and is also called a Debtors Turnover ratio.įormula: - Net Credit Sales / Average accounts receivablesĪ high ratio is always desirable as it shows the company’s efficiency in collecting the dues from clients. It represents sales for which payment has not been collected yet. Receivable Turnover ratio is used to see the company’s efficiency in collecting its receivables or the money owed by clients. Let’s read on further to understand these ratios to get some clarity ![]() These ratios analysis how well a company utilizes its assets and manages its liabilities. Read the guide on Ratio analysisĮfficiency Ratios are a measure of how well an organization is managing its routine affairs. ![]() Though this is not a foolproof method, it is a good way to run a fast check on a company's health. ![]() An easier way to find out about a company's performance is to look at its financial ratios. However, this can be cumbersome and will not determine the efficiency levels of the business. One can examine the company’s Quarterly and Annual accounts to determine how productively they are managing its assets and liabilities to maximize profits. Stock investing involves a careful analysis of the companies and their financial data to arrive at their true worth. ![]() ![]() In fact, I believe this is only possible through augmenting each otherâs strengths. Another example is this 3D printed bridge which they are going to install in Amsterdam. With this approach, the AI built the ultimate car chassis.Ä¥. Imagine that you can place a machine, give it a feed of raw material input and. One bit stuck out to me as really thought-provoking: Dutch designers have created a system to 3D print functional things in-place, like this bridge concept. This talk on generative AI was interesting. By instrumenting data, we can give the things we build the equivalent of a central nervous system, and understand better what the system needs and what it can do. The incredible inventions of intuitive AI Maurice Conti. For example, the creation of this structure called the hive, required the AI to control everything, the robots to do the fibre winding, which humans canât do, while the humans manipulated the bamboo, a non-isotropic material hard for robots to deal with.Ĥ. In the future, humans, robots and AI will augment each other to produce things which are previously considered impossible. Perhaps most importantly well talk about the sometimes-unexpected ways AI techniques can be invaluable in content generation. This can be seen in recent examples of chess and go playing computers AlphaZero and AlphaGo defeating the strongest human players.Ä£. What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and. Leo Laporte (00:07:36): , you could safely replace the word AI or the letters AI in here with any number of things.![]() They are going towards intuitive in the next phase where they learn from previous tasks. The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI Maurice Conti. Recently they have been trending towards generative, where you provide some inputs, and they generate a whole series of possible solutions. What I did: - 6 anonymous transcripts from 6 UR sessions, all collated into one file. Each of which IMO are also exponential in nature Unknowns, irreversible changes and my favorite the snowball affect. Every age off progression comes with consequences, a cause and effect if you will. ![]() For a long time, the tools we used have always been passive. Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI 5 Like Comment Share Copy. The exponential growth alone with AI should heed warning. We are soon to enter the next era: the augmented age.Ä¢. The information age lasted just a few decades. The industrial era lasted a couple of centuries. Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more - all by themselves. Futurist Maurice Conti takes viewers on a tour of augmented reality and artificial intelligence, asking can robots and humans work side-by-side Expect case studies from Airbus and the construction sector. The agricultural era lasted thousands of years. The incredible inventions of intuitive AI. The hunter-gatherer era lasted millions of years. ![]() ![]() ![]() We respect your privacy and data collection preferences, so Collections sync will remain "Off" if you have turned sync "Off" for any features. UPDATE as of 5/8: In yesterday's Beta update, we turned Collections sync "On" for users that have all other sync features "On" in Settings. Syncing Collections for Stable and Beta.The storage sync service and/or storage account can be moved to a different resource group, subscription, or Azure AD tenant. To immediately sync files that are changed in the Azure file share, the Invoke-AzStorageSyncChangeDetection PowerShell cmdlet can be used to manually initiate the detection of changes in the Azure file share.I'm a MS ToDo user and have been anxiously awaiting this update that was announced a couple of months ago. In the changelog it says "Sync with Microsoft To Do (Beta)". This way, you and the person who shared the folder can collaborate on it on your computers, and the changes, such as adding, deleting, moving, or editing files within the folder, will be automatically applied to MEGA and the other person’s computer.Samsung Reminder and Microsoft To-do Sync beta is live! I saw an update tonight for Samsung Reminder version 11., dated Oct 16, 2020. When a user shares a synced folder with you, you can sync this folder with your computer. Upgrade to Pro anytime to get advanced syncing features like CloudFiles, offline …Samsung Reminder and Microsoft To-do Sync beta is live! I saw an update tonight for Samsung Reminder version 11., dated Oct 16, 2020. Now move, drag or copy files and folders from other locations on your computer, into the Sync folder.Sync up to 5 of your own devices, with apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and the web. Click the Sync folder icon, to open the Sync folder. Click the Sync icon on the Windows system tray or the Mac menu bar. You can't preview them before downloading, and if you have a lot of images stored, Samsung will split them into multiple ZIP files.Adding files and folders to Sync, from your computer: Show on Windows Show on Mac. Then click on Gallery to have the option to download all the images. ![]() Just go to the Samsung Cloud website and log in. However, if your Samsung Cloud storage limit is higher than 5GB, you will automatically get the same storage on OneDrive for one year.įinally, if you prefer to back up your images to a computer, you can do so with just a few clicks. As a reminder, 5 GB of storage are offered on the Microsoft service. ![]() If your smartphone does not have enough storage, it is possible to transfer directly to OneDrive. Finally, you'll just need to tap on "Download my data". At the bottom, you should find a "looking for something else" menu, which will allow you to access Samsung Cloud. In this case, you will need to go to the settings, then to "accounts and backup". If you have enough space on your smartphone, you can opt to backup your photos and videos locally on your device. Since it's not possible to know which group you're in, it's best to back up your photos and videos before September 30, when group 1 will have its photos deleted from Samsung Cloud. Samsung has divided its customers into two groups, each with different deadlines. So Samsung has created a tool to transfer your data to Microsoft's OneDrive, but it's also possible to manually download all your photos and back them up elsewhere. Samsung Cloud will still back up your contacts, calendar entries and notes, but images and video content will no longer be part of Samsung's offering. Indeed, Samsung will soon remove the ability to backup your photos on its Samsung Cloud service. Samsung Cloud users are advised to upload their photos if they don't want to lose them by next month. The tech giant has already announced that it will completely shut down its popular cloud service as it will soon migrate to Microsoft OneDrive. Samsung Cloud will soon delete your photos and videos. ![]() ![]() ![]() It does leave me with some concerns about the codec's implementation and usability issues, though, which could further add to the confusion surrounding audio formats, and audio quality output of different steaming services to achieve high-quality audio playback. The experience has actually ended up highlighting to me just how good standard Bluetooth audio sound quality has become over recent years, and testament to Nura's audio handling capabilities no matter what Bluetooth codec the Pro earbuds are connected to. In fairness, I cannot hand on heart say that I was entirely confident that I was listening to music streamed using the aptX Lossless Audio codec, although all the menu options certainly pointed that way. ![]() To make matters more doubtful, the Snapdragon Sound software tool showed aptX Adaptive - despite having all the phone settings at the highest audio performance level possible - adding to my need for some greater clarity and reassurance. From what I've heard so far, though, it is difficult for me to view aptX Lossless as a genuine audio improvement. But I admit, I am fanatical about seeking out the best technology and products to boost the way I experience my favorite music of movies at home. I'm not much of a fan of the term audiophile that's often used to describe someone like myself who is perhaps a bit fussy about sound quality. Is this really the future of wireless audio? ![]() I felt there was a bit more space around Chris Martin's Vocal while listening to Coldplay's "Rush of Blood to the Head" album, and vocals generally appeared to have more space and 'air' around them, but the upgrade wasn't quite the night and day sound contrast I had anticipated. There was a little more solidity and image focus on tracks such as Rag'n'Bone Man's "Human" - the jangly chains and hand claps sounded more natural and less abrasive too. ![]() That's not to say there weren't any benefits at all, although I hasten to add they were surprisingly subtle.įor me, any quality improvements majored on a bit more detail to both the lower and upper frequency ranges, but that's pretty much it. Most of these were Tidal music streams and Nura's lossless audio demo playlist contained mainly high-resolution tracks showcasing a wide range of music taste and styles, although I streamed some additional CD-quality tracks too.įrom what I've heard so far, it is difficult for me to view aptX Lossless as a genuine audio improvement.ĭuring my listening session I was surprised that there didn't appear to be quite the step up in sound quality I had anticipated while patiently waiting to experience the next evolutionary step in aptX codecs. My listening focused mainly on the audio tracks that Nura had preloaded on to the Asus phone it sent over, plus some of my own tracks for reference. I've spent a good amount of time getting to know the NuraTrue Pro earbuds connected my iPhone 12 Pro via standard AAC over Bluetooth, so I was pretty confident that I'd be able to hear the benefits the new aptX Lossless Audio codec would bring. So far, support for aptX Lossless codec has been limited to just a few Android devices, and Nura was kind enough to send me a Asus Zenfone 9 mobile phone to try out with its Pro earbuds and demo aptX Lossless Audio sound myself with one of the first mobile playback devices to support the new codec. Of course, as well as headphones capable of supporting the lossless audio codec, you also need a device capable of transmitting it. As a new introduction to the company's range of headphones, the NuraTrue Pro will be among the first to support Qualcomm’s aptX Lossless Audio codec when they go on sale later this year. Thanks to Australian audio specialist Nura, I've been trying out the company's NuraTrue Pro ($329) true wireless earbuds for the last few months. (Image credit: NuraSound) Which devices offer aptX Lossless Audio? ![]() |
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