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![]() I very know that on NG+5 this game will force you to deflect anything couse enything will one shot you, can you say for yourself that this is possible to deflect anthing in lu bu, blinded guy?) Yes, it's possible but no, everything is not gonna 1 shot you. I beat the game, final boss took like 5-6 triesm BUT. The former is impossible while the later can still be very easy when you have enough time to tell that it's coming, which you do. There are faster attacks and more attacks in a combo done by other bosses too.Įven if the 5 frame window is true, reacting to or pressing a button in a 5 frame window is a very big difference. Not sure how you came to the final boss then because he doesn't do anything you haven't beat before. Originally posted by Žviks:If that's your definition of reflexes and training your body then sure. ![]() There are faster attacks and more attacks in a combo done by other bosses too. ![]() as I said - reflexes, you need train your body, this is not ok, even for souls genre If that's your definition of reflexes and training your body then sure. You just have to react to that, not actual attack. They seem to be instant but there are arm movements you can memorize and there's also a sound tell. It's the same here but even easier because the window is larger. The next time you can recognize the start up and remember what comes and that you have to press deflect so many times. You can't possibly know or react to Genichiro's 7 attack combo in 1 second when you see it for the first time. The whole game of Sekiro works like this. This is just something you have to learn in these kind of games. When he does very fast back to back attacks you just press circle as many times as he attacks which is max 3 if I remember correctly.
![]() As I mentioned, you can query by example, building up a But MongoDB supports more than simply getting a single document by ID or getting all the documents in aĬollection. In the last article we covered some basics on usingĭata from the database. Putting stuff in the database is all well and good, but you’ll probably want to query the database to get data from it. But if you want a reminder, or simply want to skip to playing with the code, you can take a look at As in the previous article, if you want to follow along and code as we go, you can use these tips to get the tests in theĪnd how to create them from Java and insert them into MongoDB, so I’m not going to repeat that here. In this post, I’ll give an introduction to CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations using the Java driver. , we covered the basics of installing and connecting to MongoDB via a Java application. ![]() Please check out the new Java tutorials on theīy Trisha Gee, Java Engineer and Advocate at MongoDB Many things changed in the Java driver since then. This blog post from 2014 is now very deprecated. Getting Started with MongoDB and Java: Part II In addition to EA, Kixeye and a variety of other gaming companies use MongoDB to improve the gaming experience. Park, who played for years for Manchester United and tormented Arsenal defenses, “congratulate Spearhead on the great performance of FIFA Online 3,” performance enabled by its underlying MongoDB data infrastructure. Not content to win accolades on the field, EA FIFA Online 3 has also garnered honors from the industry, most recently winning a MongoDB Innovation Award, due to its creative use of MongoDB.Įven better, EA's Spearhead, recipient of the $2,500 award for its work, donated it to the Park Ji-sung JS Foundation. As EA FIFA Online 3 continues to grow in popularity, EA expects MongoDB's autosharding and other features to make it simple to scale. EA already runs 250 MongoDB servers, spread across 80 shards. (More on him later.)īecause EA FIFA Online 3, developed by Spearhead, one of EA’s leading development studios, needs to scale to millions of players, Spearhead built the game to run on MongoDB, the industry's most scalable database. The massively multiplayer online soccer game is the most popular sports game in Korea, allowing players to choose to play and customize a team from any of over 30 leagues and 15,000 real world players. Throughout Asia one of the most popular ways to bend it like Beckham is with EA’s FIFA Online 3. Not everyone chooses to play FIFA on their XBox or Playstation, however. ![]() EA Sports FIFA offers otherwise average athletes the chance to take on and beat the world’s best, weaving intricate passing plays and mastering Messi-esque dribbling with the flick of a controller.Īll without leaving the comfort of their couch. Think the World Series is big? Or the Super Bowl? Neither comes close to the billions of people that tune in to watch the World Cup, soccer's (football to everyone else outside North America) quadrennial event.īut what about the most played game in your household? That’s likely Electronic Arts’ EA Sports FIFA, the world's best-selling sports video game franchise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, you can share only one image to a single site at a time. In addition, if you have a CC subscription, you can save your picture to your Adobe Creative Cloud storage, where your pictures are available to your other Adobe applications from any other device or computer. On Android, you can share on Google+ and other applications installed on your device. Sharing options are comprehensive and include Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Adobe Revel, text messaging and email. We found Facetune's Patch tool and PicsArt's Clone much more effective, because they allowed us to define the source within our picture that would be used to hide blemishes and wrinkles. On the other hand, the Healing Brush, which is one of desktop Photoshop's highly useful tools, doesn't quite cut it in the mobile app. The Corrections module is where PS Express Mobile reveals its Photoshop heritage for quality image editing, with sliders controlling clarity, tint, sharpness, contrast, highlights and more. You can constrain your crop to device size (great for screen savers), to a square (for Instagram) or to other popular aspect ratios, such as 4 x 6 and 5 x 7. The Crop section includes a straighten slider, rotate and flip, in addition to the crop tool. The seamless integration of the add-ons could be frustrating to users who aren't interested in spending money on the app, but are pulled in by the smooth marketing of having them in the interface as an extra tab. Similarly, the Adobe Advanced Pack (for another $5) offers Adobe quality noise-reduction and defogging (which ups the contrast). ![]() PS Express includes only 23 Looks (which is fewer than most of the other apps we've reviewed), but Premium Looks are available for $5. A slider controls the strength of the Look from very subtle to full power. For instance, the Aquatic filter creates an attractive monochrome image with a very slight blue cast. Looks are predefined filters that may not knock your socks off in terms of special effects, but they tend to produce good quality images. ![]() ![]() So, yes, general expenses, like other legitimate business expenses, are tax deductible. Other expenses, like interest, depreciation and amortization, are then deducted to produce the net operating profit or earnings before taxes (EBT). That leaves 15% for operating profit before other income, expenses-such as depreciation and interest-and taxes.” Are general expenses tax deductible?Īs general expenses are part of the operating expenses of a business, they are deducted from the gross profit (revenues minus the cost of sales or cost of goods sold), to produce the operating profit or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). If you have 35% remaining, then your SG&A should ideally be a maximum of 20%. “If your COGS is up to 65%, you have 35% left over. Manufacturing could have COGS representing a range of 60% to 65% of revenues, leaving 40% to 35%, respectively, for SG&A and operating income. In this case, the restaurant may have SG&A expenses of 30%, leaving a 20% operating profit. Labour-intensive businesses, like restaurants and hotels, may have higher SG&A expenses, in percentage terms, than capital-intensive industries such as manufacturing, which produce goods.įor example, a restaurant might have a COGS or COS of 50%, leaving a gross profit margin of 50%. “It changes depending on the industry or business that you’re in,” Barros adds. However, some businesses may have SG&A expenses ranging from 20% to 30% of sales. ![]() “Generally speaking, the SG&A can go from 15% to 25% of revenues,” Barros says. What is a typical level of general expenses in a business? “If you look below the gross profit (on the income statement), you have the selling, general and administrative costs, which add up to the overall cost of running the business,” Barros says. The graphic below shows where general expenses appear on a company’s income statement and how they are used to calculate total costs, and earnings before interest and taxes. Where do general expenses appear on the income statement? Both general and administrative expenses fall under SG&A expenses, reported under gross profit in the income statement report, also known as the profit and loss report. ![]() While general and administrative expenses are frequently grouped together, the two are quite distinct.īarros explains the nuance: “General expenses are costs the business incurs to run its daily operations, like rent, utilities, postage, office supplies, computer equipment and insurance, while administrative costs relate to the management of the business.” He says administrative costs include staff payroll, benefits, and consultant, accountant and lawyer fees. “They’re the indirect costs of running a business.” Whatever you manufacture or whatever service you provide to your clients, your SG&A are not directly related to those products or services,” Barros says. Both are variable costs that tend to go up when your sales and production rise, or decline when sales and production fall. This differs from the cost of sales (COS), what a business spends on the products it purchases from suppliers for resale, and cost of goods sold (COGS), the sum of all direct costs associated with manufacturing a product. They are fixed costs since they tend to remain stable even when production volumes change. On a company’s income statement, general expenses are categorized as indirect expenses because they do not contribute directly to the making of a product or delivery of a service. They are also called overhead.” What’s the difference between cost of sales, cost of goods and general expenses? “Rent, insurance, utilities, office supplies-all of the costs associated with the day-to-day running of the business. “General expenses are directly related to the operation of the business,” says Alex Barros, Business Advisor with BDC Advisory Services in Edmonton. ![]() They can be found in the selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) section of the income statement, with the three together making up a company’s operating expenses.Įxamples of general expenses include rent, utilities, postage, supplies and computer equipment. General expenses are the costs a business incurs as part of its daily operations. Growth & Transition Capital financing solutions Kauffman Fellows Program Partial Scholarship Venture Capital Catalyst Initiative (VCCI) Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology (ICE) Venture Fund ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An added USB connection means that users can send MIDI messages from a DAW while simultaneously synchronizing with an audio clock. ![]() The Multiclock can be synchronized with incoming MIDI clock, DIN Sync, or analog clock signals from a modular synthesizer system. Incoming audio signals are first converted into clock signals then routed to the Multiclock’s four outputs. Timing information is sent to the unit from an audio track of the DAW, a process aided by an included plugin. There’s also per-channel Hot-Plug&Play support for MIDI, modular clock, analog LFO, and DIN.Īdditionally, any unused channel can be utilized as a MIDI controller. The Multiclock consists of four independent channels, each with real time shift and swing parameters. The unit converts many kinds of clock signals into others, drives a Sync plugin via DAW, and is capable of acting as a master clock source. The E-RM Multiclock is a multifarious sync solution and interface designed as a one-stop-shop for the synchronization of compatible audio devices. But We will include a North American style plug adapter free of charge* Unfortunately it can be a little tricky to understand if you're not familiar with problem solving these kinds of issues not helped by unhelpful support and an OKAY manual (there are worse out there to be fair) and that's usually the point where most people who've hit a brick wall, give up and sell it.* This unit comes with a 100V-240V adapter with an EU style power plug. The only thing I've found that does, is the ERM Multiclock. In my case I have various different drum machines and synths all with their own interpretations of the sync clock. If you have multiple, you start running into problems and that's when a Multiclock comes to the rescue. If you have one or two devices, sure Ableton's sync solutions can help. The more devices the more sync problems you have. FOr example, some may have just one external device. The ERM Multiclock is the industry standard device for sync'ing out of the box instruments with in the box instruments.Įvery person's midi requirements are different however. Have any users of the Multiclock come across and resolved this issue? It's driving me crazy as the Multiclock just seems like it's routing, but not actually controlling.Į-RM have not been responding to emails, so looking here for help! The Multiclock physical controls have no effect on any Midi Din output channel. I have tried this with a Sub37, Summit and Pulse 2. If I turn Multiclock Shuffle to 99%, the recorded audio is still on the grid (sync with metronome) ![]() If I turn the Multiclock Shift to +100ms, the recorded audio is still on the grid (sync with metronome) If I turn the Multiclock Shift to -100ms, the recorded audio is still on the grid (sync with metronome) My problem is, that the physical controls on the Multiclock do not affect the Sub37 or the recorded audio. Recorded audio (Monitor Off) on the Audio Track is perfectly in sync with the metronome - OK The unit converts many kinds of clock signals into others, drives a Sync plugin via DAW, and perhaps best of all, it is capable of acting as a master clock source for hardware. Audio from the Sub37 is routed from RME UCX Input #6 to Ableton Audio Track - OKħ. The E-RM Multiclock is a multifarious sync solution and interface designed as a one-stop shop for the synchronization of compatible audio devices. Multiclock forwards the Midi notes to Multiclock Midi Din Output #2 which is connected to the Sub 37 - OKĦ. External Instrument is used to send Midi notes to the Multiclock via USB - OKĥ. Changing BPM in Ableton, changes the BPM on the Multiclock - OKĤ. E-RM receives the audio signal and sets the clock - OKģ. E-RM plugin is setup on a standard Midi Track sending an audio signal out from RME UCX output #6 to Multiclock audio in - OKĢ. Just using one synth (Sub37) to start simple.ġ. I'm having an issue with setting up the E-RM Multiclock with Ableton. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the remaining metal elements produce at least one ion with a charge of 2+.Group 16 elements gain two electrons to become 2–, and Group 15 elements gain three electrons to become 3–. They can gain one electron and become 1–. Nonmetals in Group 17 need just one electron to complete their valence shell.Group 2 elements give up two electrons to become 2+, and Group 3 give up three electrons to become 3+. They can give up this one electron and become 1+. Metals in Group 1 have only one electron in their valence shell.In general, atoms form ions according to the following patterns: In other words, if an atom could lose one electron or gain seven to have a full octet, it will lose one. ![]() Atoms tend to gain or lose the least number of electrons to achieve a full octet. Elements will gain or lose electrons to have the same configuration as a noble gas, in other words, to have a full octet. The periodic table can help in predicting the type of ion that an element will form based on how many electrons need to be gained or lost for it to become stable. 2.22 B, sodium lost one electron so that it had eight electrons in shell 2, which becomes its valence shell. ![]() 2.22 A, the oxygen atom gained two electrons so that it had eight electrons in shell 2, its valence shell. Other elements will gain or lose electrons to achieve completely full valence shells, eight electrons in the valence shell, so that they are also stable. The noble gases have eight electrons in their valence shells. The octet rule states that regardless of how many electrons a shell can potentially hold, the valence shell can only hold eight electrons. This is because they have completely full valence electron shells. Group 18 elements, the noble gases, are very stable (non-reactive). This gives it one less negative charge than positive charges and an overall charge of 1+. 2.22 B, a neutral sodium atom (Na), with 11 protons and 11 electrons, loses one electron. Metal elements tend to lose electrons and become cations. This gives it two more negative charges than positive charges and an overall charge of 2–. 2.22 A, a neutral oxygen atom (O), with eight protons and eight electrons, gains two electrons. Nonmetals tend to gain electrons and become anions. A positive ion or cation is an atom that has lost electrons. An atom that has lost negatively charged electrons becomes positive. ![]() A negative ion or anion is an atom that has gained electrons. An atom that has gained negatively charged electrons becomes negative. Therefore, the atom is no longer neutral. When an atom gains or loses an electron, the atom no longer has a balanced charge. While the atomic number, the number of protons in the nucleus, never changes, some electrons are easily lost or gained by an atom. On the other hand, electrons that have only one electron in their valence shells (Group 1 elements) or elements that are just one electron short of having a complete shell (Group 17) are the most reactive. For example, atoms with complete valence shells, the noble gases, are the least chemically reactive. In general, the electrons in valence shells determine how the atom behaves in chemical reactions. The valence shell is the outermost electron shell of an atom. In other words, the farther the shell is from the nucleus, the larger it is, and the higher its average energy. 2.21 C).Īs the electron shells go from 1 to 7, they increase in size and average energy.
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