![]() It became the industry standard format and the most widely accepted format for transferring complex surface information, such as NURBS curves (see Chapter 7 for more information.) In 1979 Boeing, General Electric and NIST developed a neutral file format as a contract from Air Space called IGES (Initial Graphic Exchange Standard).In 1978 the Computer Graphics Newsletter, a two year old publication founded by Joel Orr, became Computer Graphics World magazine.MiniCAD became the best selling CAD program on the Macintosh. was founded and the first version of MiniCAD was shipped. 3D was still very hard to work with on a PC and it was not until a later release that CADKEY was able to become a serious player as a 3D wireframe layout tool and for drafting. In 1985 Peter Smith and Livingston Davies founded Micro-Control Systems and released CADKEY, the first 3D PC CAP product. In 1989 Autodesk purchased Generic Software and the Generic CADD program. It would become the world’s largest independent CAD publication. In 1986 CADENCE magazine was established for the AutoCAD user community. Compared with its more expensive sibling, LT lacked the AutoLISP programming language and other programming interfaces, some 3D capability, and a few other features. A lower-cost version, AutoCAD LT was first introduced in 1993. AutoCAD running on PCĪutoCAD 2004 was released in March 2003. ![]() Version 1.0 was released in December 1982. Its file formats (DWG and its ASCII equivalent, AutoCAD DXF) became the default standard for CAD packages. Initially for mechanical engineers, it was extended and was very widely used by architects and other design professionals. Versions for Unix and Apple Macintosh were released, but these met with limited market acceptance and were later dropped. It originally ran only on Microsoft operating systems. Autodesk productsĪutoCAD is a Computer Assisted Design (CAD) software package for 2D and 3D design and drafting. It was shown at the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas as the first CAD program in the world to run on a PC. That product turned out to be AutoCAD, which was based on a CAD program written in 1981 by Mike Riddle called MicroCAD, changed later to Interact. They did this with the notion that one of the applications would take off and be developed further. He and the other 15 co-founders set off to develop five different desktop automation applications. Autodesk Autodesk employees (founder John Walker in center)Īutodesk was founded in 1982 by John Walker.
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![]() ![]() Many cameras these days can create image file sizes greater than 10 megapixels. By using some basic freemium editing software, you can reduce the size of the image for the first method. The three methods to reduce the file size are simple enough where anyone can do it on their own. ![]() Each of these methods will reduce the size of the image file, allowing the photo to be loaded much faster. There are several ways to do this, but the simplest and most effective methods are to 1) resize the image resolution, 2) crop the image) and 3) change the file type. If your system crashes and your work is not backed up on an external drive or on the cloud, you'll need to use photo recovery software to get it back.Īn additional method for loading your photos faster is to reformat them so that your computer is faster to display them. Hosting your photos on the cloud is a cost-effective way to store and view photos if you don't have a high-performing computer. By using software-as-a-service, you can purchase a monthly subscription to use the cloud to store and view your photos. By leveraging the cloud, you have the option of hosting your photos in a place where a data center can do all the performance for you. If you are looking to either focus your effort on editing or viewing photos, make sure that you have shut down any other program that is running whether that's other software or a web browser.Īs cloud service providers incorporate more advanced technology into their data centers, the price of data storage has drastically dropped. Many people will forget they're running multiple programs or applications in the background while trying to access or edit their photos, and this can seriously slow down their machine. Another approach to improve the performance of your computer to be able to load photos quicker is to reduce the number of programs running. ![]() ![]() I'll tell you the story was basically we had a product, which was a customer data dashboard, and it would show you everything your company had on the customer. Kashish Gupta : Our business has pivoted a few times. Hightouch is based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors such as ICONIQ Growth, Amplify Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Afore Capital.How did you get the idea for Hightouch and its reverse ETL technology? With data warehouses as the hub for customer data, Hightouch has pioneered the concept of reverse ETL, which is the easiest way to get data out of data warehouses and into those customer-facing operational systems. Hightouch was founded on the notion that every business team-sales, marketing, support, success-needs relevant, accurate, and real-time customer data in the software they use to talk to customers including CRM, email, and support platforms. Their goal is to build out a sizable team that is capable of delivering Hightouch to as many companies as possible.įounded by early employees of Segment, Hightouch is the world's leading Reverse ETL platform, which syncs data from data warehouses to various SaaS tools. The money will be used to expand the surface area of who the product serves, and further improve the core developer experience. "Hightouch has opened up all kinds of use cases, such as sending real-time notifications of new opportunities to Slack, sending custom audience lists to ad platforms such as Adwords and Bing to enable targeted advertising, and sending product activity data into Marketo for personalized email campaigns-and we're just scratching the surface!"Īs pioneers of the Reverse ETL space, Hightouch will use their latest round of funding to double-down on their investment in product and engineering. With Hightouch, we can put data to use so quickly and easily," said Tim Jenkins, senior director of strategy and analytics at Lucidchart. Before using Hightouch, getting that data into other tools was painful and time-consuming. "We have so much valuable data in our data warehouse. Public companies like Autotrader, the largest car marketplace in the UK, use Audiences to send data to ad networks and email tools for hyper-personalization, faster experimentation, and increased customer conversion. With Hightouch Audiences, marketers can self-serve data for their campaigns. In the past few months, Hightouch released their second product, Hightouch Audiences, which lets anyone define what data they need in their tools, regardless of whether they know SQL or not. These are in addition to existing partnerships with modern data stack leaders like dbt, Fivetran, and Snowplow. They have also developed key partnerships with companies like Amplitude and Outreach that have endorsed Hightouch as the de facto way to transfer data into their applications, either for initial implementation or enhancement of customer data. Hightouch has also partnered with Snowflake, solidifying a foothold as the go-to product for data activation from the data warehouse. Hightouch is the easiest way to sync that data between systems without engineering help.īetween the Series A and now, Hightouch overhauled their core product to make it enterprise ready by adding access control, SSO, version control, and the ability to handle the throughput of millions of rows of data that their Fortune 500 customers send every day. "This new round of funding allows us to invest heavily in our product to add features that data engineers love, as well as UIs that make Hightouch accessible to different verticals of business users, starting with marketers and expanding into sales, customer success, and support."Įvery business team - sales, marketing, support, success - needs customer data in the software they use to talk to customers, like CRMs, email tools, ad tools, and billing tools. "Our vision is to make data accessible and useful to everyone within a company," said Kashish Gupta, co-founder of Hightouch. This year, Hightouch has partnered with B2C brands like Betterment, EyeByeDirect, Imperfect Foods, Autotrader, and Nando's, as well as B2B companies like Plaid, Ramp, CircleCI, Lucidchart, and SurveyMonkey. Hightouch has hundreds of customers, including Fortune 500 companies. Since the Series A announcement, Hightouch has increased revenue by more than twofold and grown the team from four employees at the beginning of the year to thirty today. ![]() The growth of the market and stellar customer interviews led investors to pre-empt the company's Series B. This comes just months after announcing their Series A due to rapid customer acquisition, a new product ( Hightouch Audiences), and the tailwinds of companies adopting cloud data warehouses and the modern data stack. Hightouch co-founders Josh Curl (left), Kashish Gupta (center), and Tejas Manohar (right) To my knowledge, there are only two brands of gelatin powder sourced from responsibly-farmed, pastured (grass-fed) animals: Great Lakes and Bernard Jensen. ![]() It’s usually primarily pig parts, with some cow hide mixed in. Unless the gelatin powder specifically says where it was sourced, and from what kind of animals, you can be fairly certain that it is simply a byproduct of the CAFO (factory farming) industry. I don’t do factory-farmed meat, myself, and I don’t do factory-farmed gelatin, either. So, we don’t want to be supporting the horribly unethical practices of factory farming, nor do we really want to be eating animal products that are laced with all kinds of drugs and hormones, right? Right. The most important factor when choosing a powdered gelatin is the same as with choosing any animal product- the source matters. ![]() ![]() I hope this little guide will help to answer that for you, so you can make a decision and be on your way to incorporating lots more gelatin goodness into your daily diet! Nix the Knoxįirst thing’s first. Have you been hearing more about the benefits of gelatin, and are interested in finding a quality gelatin powder, but aren’t sure which kind to get? You’re not alone!Ī very common question I am asked from readers is, “W hat’s the difference between all these different types of gelatin powder? And how do you choose?” ![]() Now, in their final years, Sarai’s and Abram’s task was to tend the memories and not give way to bitterness. It’s easier to bear the burden of a painful reality when you can let go of hope that always fails to deliver. ![]() Past the age of childbearing, Sarai could finally let go of hope-the kind of hope that came around month after month only to be dashed again and again. Now at last there was a small measure of relief. Unlike our culture’s increasing embrace of those who choose to remain single, or couples who freely decide not to bear children, Abram’s and Sarai’s world abhorred a status labeled “barren.” For the ancients, the inability to conceive and bear children went far beyond disappointed yearnings to snuggle a newborn or take pride in their progeny such was cause for shame, especially for the woman.įor decades this couple deemed deficient had lived with the whispers of pity overheard wherever they wandered. Beyond the inevitable disappointments experienced by us all, Abram and Sarai bore a special grief, which is hard for us moderns to fathom. ![]() Goals and aspirations they may have held as youth were all behind them. The first tells the story of an elderly couple, Abram and Sarai, who had lived with their well-worn names to old age. Two short scriptures beckon for our attention as we find ourselves amidst this season called Lent. While technical change may involve swapping some outdated rules of the game, adaptive transformation means playing a whole new game. It’s like building the plane while it’s already in the air and flying at breakneck speed toward an unknown destination. The latter involves going where no one has gone-like NASA in the 1960’s, frantically trying to catch up with a president who declared boldly (and rather naively), “We’re going to the moon!” Those courageous few who embrace the calling to lead such second-order change assume high personal risks. The former involves the application of well-tested tricks of any trade. In their widely-acclaimed book, Leadership on the Line (Harvard Business School Press, 2002), these Harvard scholars draw the distinction between technical management and adaptive leadership. These relatively small pieces are really just adding insult to injury. We are spared bad voice acting, thankfully, but the dialogue we have to read is not just cheesy and generic, it’s downright awful, insultingly so. Your motivation for hunting in so many dungeons is not only the worst kind of generic fantasy fair, but it is horribly written and poorly paced. Sadly, the story is terrible, even by the lowest standards. Strict character development would be forgivable if the story or game play were engaging. Locking you into such a narrow path makes leveling a boring and archaic affair, preventing any creativity or experimentation by players. Weapons require such high skill points that a warrior can’t effectively use a bow, and a mage can’t ever manage a sword. While you can level up your character and map specific skills to combat, trying to make a hybrid class only serves to make your character useless. Character classes are the generic Mage, Warrior, and Rouge, with all the typical game play and skills you would expect with each. It is a basic hack and slash game, requiring such repeated mashing of the X button that it’s a miracle the button remains intact. Sadly, anyone that plunks down the money for Dungeon Hunter will regret their decision very quickly.ĭeveloper Gameloft is well known for aping other games and Dungeon Hunter is no different. The system is screaming for an RPG, and a game in the vein of Diablo should be a no brainer. Given that, it makes judging Dungeon Hunter on Vita difficult, especially when staring at a $40 price tag. Playstation Network has had it available for nearly a year, and Mac users have had it for nearly as long. Dungeon Hunter: Alliance isn’t a new game. She also played the (initally minor character) Kelly Kapoor, pioneering the sort of exaggeratedly ditzy version of herself that she would hone to perfection in her role as Mindy Lahiri on the "The Mindy Project." In her eight years at "The Office," Kaling's star continuously rose she went on to direct episodes and became an executive producer in 2011, as well as gaining a deal for a spinoff show, which would eventually become “The Mindy Project.” The rest, as they say, is history: Mindy Kaling is now one of the most successful women working in comedy today. Kaling got her start in showbiz as one of the “Office”’s first writers, where she was the only female writer in a staff of eight. ![]() In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Dunder Mifflin gang, here’s a look at ten wonderful things which directly owe their existence to Greg Daniels' iconic workplace comedy: While it began as a weak copy of Ricky Gervais' British "Office", it soon turned into a comedic powerhouse, serving as the lynchpin NBC’s robust mid-aughts Thursday night comedy block, spawning direct spinoffs like “Parks and Recreation," laying the groundwork for future hits like “Modern Family,” while making stars out of its cast of newcomers, including Mindy Kaling, Ellie Kemper and Ed Helms. “The Office” premiered a decade ago today, and it’s hard to overstate the impact the show had on pop culture over the course of its (admittedly rocky) eight year run. ![]() (News and Updates) Mushroom Wars 2 Update 2.3. This is only a tid-bit about the incredible game of mushroom wars. People can see themselves in a piece like this. The most basic strategy to use in the game is to fill villages that surround a target village with soldiers in preparation for the next capture. The Federal Reserve is expected today to raise interest rates by 25 basis points, slashing its planned hike after banking collapses caused turmoil in the sector. Mushroom Group has announced it is preparing to host an all-stars mega-concert to celebrate its 50th. The objective of the game is centered around capturing villages (bases) by overwhelming the enemy in numbers. But the journey to become a fearsome commander requires fast. Learning the ropes of mushroom warfare is easy with simple and intuitive controls as well as gamepad support. Princess Dianas niece, 30, and her fiancé Greg Mallett, 30, tied the knot at. It was created by Creat Studios and released on October 15, 2009. Mushroom Wars 2 is an award-winning sequel to the critically acclaimed RTS hit built upon the core gameplay experience that made the original Mushroom Wars so enjoyable. Charles Spencer has broken his silence after he missed his daughter Lady Amelias wedding in South Africa yesterday. Mushroom Wars is a real-time strategy game for the PlayStation 3, Android, iOS, and PC with two Sequals on Android, iOS, and PC originally available only for download via the PlayStation Network (PSN). I'm not sure what happened to snazzycat99 but you have me! Welcome to the #1 Mushroom Wars Wiki! This is a relatively small wiki so help to expand our criteria would be much appreciated! 3 (News and Updates) Mushroom Wars 2 Update 2.3.0 Available Now. ![]() The surface of the grip handle is designed more curved to perfectly fit your hand and the center of gravity of it has been optimized to give a balanced feeling of weight when grasped. Now, with the new design of battery, users will be able to be fully immersed in the virtual world without worrying about being interrupted or taking time to recharge the battery in the middle of gaming.īesides, the design of the grip handle and of the ring of the controllers has been optimized to be fully integrated with the palm. These are the main reasons for the development of a replaceable and rechargeable battery.” said Kevin Henderson, NA and EU Head of Operations and company spokesperson at Pimax VR. In this situation, they have to always remember to charge the battery. “Many of our users have complained to us that while being immersed in VR, they often find the controllers suddenly dead and then they have to go back to the real world to recharge the controllers. Compared with the prototype released in January this year, the new controller now features a 900mAh lithium battery that is replaceable and rechargeable. To realize the goal, Pimax has dedicated a great deal of time and resources to ensure the new Sword Series controllers set new standards in battery, comfort and ergonomics. Armed with Pimax Sword and Sword Sense, users will feel like a true hero while wielding the blade in sword fights and be able to get interactive and immersive motion controls in virtual reality. We sincerely apologize on behalf of Pimax to Backers who got an email from Customer Service that had some mischaracterizations about the project and was inadvertently released before all the information was included.The name of “Sword” refers to “the sword of virtual reality”, and the idea is that the Pimax new controller resembles the hilt of a sword that connects the VR enthusiasts with a more immersive virtual world. Please file a ticket with our Customer Service Team to request the index controller upgrade option. Those we do not receive a request from and still have an outstanding order for Sword controllers will receive the trackpad edition.įor those who do not want to receive the trackpad edition or a refund you can also choose to add $179 and receive a pair of Index Controllers. All requests for refunds must be made before November 30th, 2021. ![]() In the title please use “ Sword Refund for backer number xxx” (replace xxx with your backer number). ![]() Those who want refunds please create a service ticket using this link: Submit a ticket : Pimax Support We understand some of you may be disappointed with this decision and we sincerely apologize to those of you interested in a joystick version.Īs a result, we are again offering refunds to those who request it. If there are more developments we will be sure to let the community know.Īs we could not confirm with the exact time frame when will be the Sword Sense can be fully developed (as this required development support from Pimax & Steam) we have decided to only release the trackpad version. If we are successful in developing a fully functional Sword Sense Controller our backers will be given a special discount to purchase this version. We have not abandoned the Sword Sense project entirely and if there is an opportunity to complete it with additional third-party support, we will give the software and drivers another go. For the same reason, the “B” button, which was also included in the Sword Sense version, will not be released at this time. To overcome this issue, we require SteamVR to expose more interfaces for third-party hardware, which takes time. The major reason is that there are certain compatibility difficulties when the sword controller sends commands to SteamVR. The finger tracking sensors are indeed present in Sword controllers, but third-party Capsense, Joystick nor extra “B” button were not properly supported by SteamVR today, which is why HTC kept the previous design when they launched the second edition Wands (Touchpad design, without any Joystick, Capsense feature or an additional button). ![]() We failed to achieve the required level of capability and precision despite repeated attempts to enhance the finger tracking nor joystick capability for Sword Controller. That's it.įor example, in my case, I use ren *.png *.jpg command to change all picture files' extension from. Make sure the switch for Enable PowerRename is turned on. Step 2: In the PowerShell, type the following command ‘cd PATH\TO\FOLDER’ In PATH\TO\FILES, copy the file’s or folder location and paste it. Open the PowerToys Settings window by double-clicking its System Tray icon, then selecting PowerRename. Mass Rename Files in Windows 11 Using Powershell Step 1: Open Windows Search, type PowerShell, and click ‘Run as Administrator.’ Press Yes on the prompt. Step 2: After the CMD window opens, type the command: ren *.(current extension name) *.(new extension name), and press Enter. batch-file For Loops in Batch Files Renaming all files in the current directory Fastest Entity Framework Extensions Bulk Insert Bulk Delete Bulk Update Bulk Merge Example The following uses a variable with a for loop to rename a group of files. All the files you selected will be renamed. This will open a CMD window.Īnother way to open the Command Prompt window is to open the folder in File Explorer, click the File tab, point to Open command prompt and then click Open command prompt. Right-click on the file while pressing and holding the Shift key on your keyboard, and then select Open command window here from the context menu. You can change file extension for multiple files in one folder at once simply with the command prompt. ![]() If you need to change the filename extension for multiple or all files in one folder, it would be troublesome and time-consuming to do that one by one. Select your files, and perform a batch file name Press Home in your ribbon and either press Select all in the top-right corner of File Explorer or Ctrl click to choose the files you. Part 2: Change file extension for multiple files at once in Windows 10 Step 4: When you are prompted with the warning dialog that says "If you change a file name extension, the file might become unusable.", click Yes to confirm that. Step 3: Select the extension to highlight it, type another extension, and press Enter to confirm it. Navigate to the folder with the files to change their names. Step 2: Click the file for which you want to change the file extension to select it, and then click F2 to make the filename and extension editable. To rename multiple files in bulk with the same name structure on Windows 10, use these steps: Open File Explorer. Step 1: Show file name extensions if you haven't done so. If you need to maintain the extensions (like if several have the same filename but different extensions) you. ![]() txt files, overwriting their original extensions. Part 1: Change file extension for one file in Windows 10 If you want absolutely every file within a given folder changed to a txt extension, you can open a command window in that folder and type ren. ![]()
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