![]() ![]() With the numbers right underneath, children easily make the association between the visual cues and the act of addition.įor slightly older kids, there are a number of very popular arcade-style "popup" math games. This game teaches addition through a graphical display that lets the child see and count the shoes. The game asks the child to add the two groups of shoes together, and then pick the bug with the correct number printed on it. In this game, called Bugabaloo Addition, children are shown a number of "bug shoes" on the left and the right. Sheppard Software offers a couple of cute games for the youngest math students. Children from pre-k up to 8th grade will find fun online math games that teach important math skills that are appropriate for their age level. While teachers often use worksheets to solidify the math concepts learned in the classroom, these sort of games actually have the same educational impact on the child, and the format of the examples as an exciting game keeps the child engaged, interested and coming back for more.įrom the main page parents or children will find a simple and easy to navigate menu featuring the different levels of math games and the various math concepts that are available. These fun online math games cover all of the math fundamentals, including early math, basic and mixed operations, fractions, pre-algebra, dollars & cents and place value. Mostly all of the material you'll find at the site is completely free for kids to use. This free section of Sheppard Software was written for children. It can be very difficult for parents to find productive and worthwhile activities for children on the Internet however fun online math games do offer a wonderful alternative. The games at Sheppard Software are well written, interactive and very fun to play. "Online math games, like the ones that you'll find for free at Sheppard Software, provide a valuable opportunity for children to learn a great deal while they're having fun. Fractions, place value, money, and basic operations are some of the areas that are covered. Students can shoot fruit, pop balloons, and even play math man (the math version of pac man!). The lessons include interactive activities to practice concepts. "Sheppard offers everything from early math to pre-algebra. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the color options, however, you have solid blue, solid red, or many shades of purple and pink as you combine the two color buttons. There are however firmware updates you can get that improve on what the QuickFire XTi offers out of the box.Įvery key on the board has an LED to backlight it, as shown, in 35 colors and across five modes of effects. The QuickFire XTi also sports a 1ms response time or polling rate by default, and use of the keyboard is done without drivers. The QuickFire XTi offers full NKRO support in Windows via presses of the ABS keycaps that are sprayed with a grip-coat, and all of the caps are removable. It is also noted that availability can depend on region as well. It is available in QWERTY ANSI (US) layout and in several ISO-standard layouts, but not all switch variations are available in all layouts.Ī variation with Cherry MX Green has only been available in US-ANSI layout.As we move into the specifications, we first must cover that while we were sent a sample sporting Cherry MX blue switches in it, you can also purchase this same layout backed with Cherry MX red or brown switches as well. Exclusive for the Rapid with the Cherry MX Red, the backplate is painted in red where other variations are black. Both top covers are for sale as extras on Cooler Master's web site. Rapid keyboards with Cherry MX Black switches have a grey case, while keyboards with other switches have a black case. For 2013, Cooler Master removed most of the previous year's branding logos, except for a "CM STORM" which faces to the back of the keyboard, behind the ESC key. When the keyboard was first introduced in 2012, it had a grey rubbery coating with an abundance of logos, for which the Cooler Master had been heavily ridiculed in media and in the keyboard and gaming communities. There is a side-printed variant called the "QuickFire Stealth". 2 black "Windows" keys with Cooler Master's "round logo", replacing the "WIN" keys.4 red-colored WASD keys suitable for FPS gaming, with directional arrows etched on top and "WASD" letters etched of the front side.The locking keys ( CAPS LOCK, SCR LK, and the Windows key lock/disable under the F9 key) have LED windows and red LED backlighing. This "lock" prevents accidental activation of the Windows key when gaming (which would take you out to the Windows menu in the middle of a game). Media-wise, it has basic media keys (volume-up, down, mute, play/pause, forward, back and media stop), activated as secondary functions (Fn) on the top row (F5 to F12).įor gamers, it has a Windows key disable/lock key which lights red when activated (Fn+F9) in the same fashion as the CAPS LOCK and SCR LK keys. The keycaps are made of black ABS plastic which are laser-etched with white infill in a futuristic font. The bottom has rear (non-rubberized) standoffs and four rubber feet. ![]() The 'Rapid' comes standard with a braided, detachable, USB-to-mini-USB cable (about 6 feet long) with gold-plated connectors. The bottom surface has three channels for cable management (back, left and right). It had gained popularity partly because it was much less expensive compared to other TKL keyboards with similar specifications from other brands, e.g., Ducky or Filco. It was branded under Cooler Master's now defunct brand "CM Storm" under its "QuickFire" line of mechanical keyboards. The CM Storm QuickFire Rapid is a tenkeyless (TKL) keyboard from Cooler Master. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Spacedock first appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and then appeared in the following three movies. The massive Earth-orbiting Starfleet Spacedock was shown, now expanded with extra levels. Starfleet Spacedock Paramount Pictures/Paramount+ They had an overstock of Enterprise-D models at the bar, as the bartenders said “nobody wants the fat ones.” Riker doesn’t care for this Enterprise-D shade, and we don’t either. This is a day celebrating the founding of Starfleet. It was a Third Dynasty Kurlan naiskos, something Galen gave him in the sixth season TNG episode “The Chase.” In Ten-ForwardĪt Guinan’s bar Ten Forward in Los Angeles, we found the bartenders selling souvenirs for the upcoming Frontier Day. On his office desk was the Ressikan flute he learned to play when he lived another lifetime in the episode “The Inner Light.” Also on his desk was an ancient artifact given to him by his mentor and archaeology professor Dr. Hanging in his office was Picard’s painting of the Enterprise-D, which we saw displayed in his Ready Room on TNG. We saw the aftermath of that event in the third season TNG episode “Allegiance.” Most importantly, there’s an old Enterprise-D computer console, which is playing Captain Picard’s log entry from the episode “The Best of Both Worlds,” where t he crew faced off against the Borg Collective. We also see a plaque honoring her service in saving the planet Cor Caroli V from a deadly plague. We also see her orchids, which we once saw in her Enterprise quarters in “Cause and Effect.” There’s also a large case with the belongings of her deceased husband Jack Crusher, which she brought out of storage on Earth in the episode “Family.” CBS/Viacom Barclay even did a production of Cyrano de Bergerac together. This was something we saw in the TNG episode “The Nth Degree.” She and Lt. ![]() Crusher’s belongings we saw aboard her medical vessel the Eleos was the Comedy and Tragedy masks, which represented Beverly’s time running an acting class on the Enterprise-D. Only in that film, it said “In the 23rd Century…” Even the font is the same. The opening title card says “In the 25th Century…” This didn’t just tell us when the show took place, but it’s a direct homage to how the title card from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan appeared. Paramount+ Jump to Easter Eggs From: Episode One // Episode Two // Episode Three // Episode Four // Episode Five Picard Episode One “The Next Generation” Easter Eggs The Opening Title Card CBS/Viacom/Paramount Pictures Here are a few of the best ones we spotted in Picard‘s episodes. With the final season a swan song for the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew, the producers stuffed these episodes full of fun winks and nods for fans. But just with one episode, season three blew the previous two out of the water in this regard. The first two seasons of Star Trek: Picard had their share of Easter eggs for longtime fans to spot. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() MacKeeper's Memory Cleaner does the same as Mac's built-in Activity Monitor utility. Never stop apps and processes you aren't sure about.Remember to carefully choose apps and processes to quit.Quitting unknown processes may stop necessary app activity on your Mac and cause operational issues. Should I quit all unknown apps and processes? Click Quit in the confirmation window if you really want to quit this item.Click the cross button next to the items you want to quit.Hover the pointer over the app or process you want to quit.Before quitting apps like Pages, Microsoft Word, Photos, or similar, make sure you've saved all the changes you’ve made. Quitting an app with Apps & Processes works just like the default Force Quit option in macOS. Use this category to kill useless processes and quit apps you don't need to currently run. You can also select Ascending or Descending order. You can sort all detected items by Name or by Memory Usage. To change the sort order, click the nine-dot button to the right, select Sort by, and choose the order you'd like. To open it, select Apps & Processes from the left panel.īy default, this category shows the most memory-consuming processes at the top of the list. The Apps & Processes category displays the list of active processes your Mac is running at that moment. How to manage your Mac’s apps and processes Next, you should see a new Available Memory value and the amount of RAM you've just cleaned. You can click Clean Memory once you’ve reviewed your memory usage details. Available Memory is the memory that is ready for other apps to use.However, when another app needs this memory, Safari's data is automatically cleaned so other apps can use this. For example, if you open Safari, your Mac will save data in cache for faster access. ![]() Cached Files are the part of your Mac memory currently in use, though it's available for other apps.Compressed Memory is not currently in use, but the memory that the computer compresses or swaps to the hard drive for later use.Wired Memory displays the amount of memory required for the proper operation of macOS-it can't be compressed or swapped.Apps Memory shows the amount of memory your apps are currently using.MacKeeper displays four types of occupied memory. Occupied memory is the memory your Mac's apps and processes are using at any given moment to run properly. The right panel shows how much of your Mac’s memory is occupied and how much is available. To open it, select Memory Usage from the left panel. The Memory Usage category will show you details on how your Mac is using memory at that moment. How to learn more about your Mac’s memory usage You can check two Memory Cleaner categories for more details on this. You'll see the amount of available memory, how much memory you've just released, and how much is still in use Click Clean Memory at the bottom to instantly free up some Mac memoryĢ. Learn more details about the cleanup by checking the Memory Usage or Apps & Processes categories. Here, you should see your Mac's memory overview where you can instantly clean your device’s memory. Open MacKeeper, and click Memory Cleaner from the left sidebar.RAM stands for Random Access Memory, and usually the more available, the faster your Mac should run. The Memory Cleaner feature can free up your Mac's RAM and manage your Mac’s processes more effectively too. ![]() ![]() ![]() Make sure you have an existing Usenet service account to be able to set the correct server information and enable an SSL port to have a secure and anonymous downloading experience. NZB Drop provides SSL support, which you can configure on your server settings. Aside from that, NZB Drop can download parts of the same file using a large amount of simultaneous connections per Usenet server. NZB Drop also has a File Collections feature that views and manages long lists or rar segments or split files and allows you to view them as a single collection. NZB drop has full support for automatic PAR2 check and repair, unrar, unzip and split file assembly. Users can subscribe to binary newsgroups through this application and monitor posted NZBs. General FeaturesĪs mentioned, NZB Drop’s main feature is that it can download NZB files from Usenet newsgroups. By default, NZB Drop uses Binsearch as its indexer. NZB Drop also has a clean and modern-looking interface and an integrated search feature that allows you to search for files on several indexers. Their latest version, 4.03, has fixed previous bug issues and addressed hanging problems when download connections switch from one nzb to another. NZB Drop has continuously been updated to provide the best features possible for Mac users. Aside from that, NZB Drop has other good features that enhance user experience and allows it to compete well with other downloaders. With NZB Drop, you can use multiple servers to access Usenet and subscribe to binary newsgroups for posted NZBs. It is a relatively new NZB downloader that can run on the latest version of the Mac operating system, starting from Mac OS X. Designed by the same developers of Hogwasher, NZB Drop simplifies file downloading by removing the process of climbing through a large amount of headers before directly accessing the files you want. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chemical Safetys SDS Search Tool: The Chemical Safety Free SDS/ MSDS. 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(Walker's husband was originally the lightkeeper, but came down with pneumonia before his death, his last reported words to her were “Mind the lights, Katie.”) After she temporarily took over as head lightkeeper, Walker ran against bias: The government thought she was too small to do the job, and looked for what they thought would be a hardier man. “It tended to be, especially in the early to mid-19th century, like, ‘You’re a Whig? I’m a Whig!’”Īt the museum, information boards tell the stories of hardworking icons like Kate Walker, a famous female lightkeeper stationed in a nearby New York harbor. And often, for the first hundred years, it was civilians with political connections, as Celestina Cuadrado, the museum’s curator, explains. Prior to the Fresnel lens, lighthouses had only one type of light-strong and steady.īack in the early days of the country, civilians ran these all-important beacons. That was a big upgrade for those navigating the ocean’s waves, who could become dangerously disoriented when every dim lighthouse looked the same. Visitors to the museum can peer at several of these lenses, which also allowed lighthouses to create individualized luminous patterns so that sailors could recognize which part of a coast they were approaching. The newly engineered system increased, by many miles, the distance at which a sailor could spot a tower’s glow. In 1822, Fresnel created a new type of lens that revolutionized optics by more effectively reflecting and refracting light. The new museum shows off a number of tools that helped guide ships over the years, including rusty foghorns and Fresnel lenses (pronounced freh-nel and named for French physicist Augustin Fresnel). ![]() ![]() As the museum’s executive director told the New York Times, “Lighthouses built the economy of this world.” The Founding Fathers knew that if you couldn’t sail safely into America’s harbors, “you couldn’t bring merchandise or do business.” On August 7, 1789, back when George Washington was President, Congress passed an act for the establishment and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers (the annual National Lighthouse Day commemorates that anniversary). Lighthouse Service’s 3rd District,” which extended from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, north to Albany, New York, and east to the Massachusetts border.Īt the time-and for much of our country’s history-lighthouses were vital for keeping sailors alive, as well as for commerce. The depot was, according to the new museum, “the key manufacturing, storage, supply and maintenance center for the U.S. In 1862, several years after the hospital burned, the Staten Island Lighthouse Depot was erected in its place. And the museum’s site itself is filled with history: It’s the former location of the New York Marine Hospital (popularly called The Quarantine), a place where up to 1,500 immigrants could be held if suspected of being in “poor or questionable health”-and which, in 1858, “ a riotous mob of locals” burned down. This weekend, in honor of National Lighthouse Day on August 7, it’s offering free admission and a number of events in celebration of its grand opening, including talks from a noted MIT professor who doubles as a lightkeeper on a remote island in Lake Superior. While the museum had a soft opening of sorts a few months back, it’s now officially welcoming visitors. ![]() New York’s Staten Island is now home to the National Lighthouse Museum, a non-profit site in the works since 1998 that displays the artifacts and cultural history of a sometimes-overlooked job-one in which people lived a lonely life on a tiny parcel of land to maintain a light that saved sailors’ lives. ![]() ![]() This conceptualisation brings to the forefront the power relations and multifaceted economic and social interactions within data governance models emerging in an environment mainly dominated by corporate actors. Addressing the politics of data, we considered the actors’ competitive struggles for governing data. Drawing from the notion of data infrastructure we identify the models as a function of the stakeholders’ roles, their interrelationships, articulations of value, and governance principles. We propose a social science-informed conceptualisation of data governance. The article sheds light on four models emerging from the practices of these actors: data sharing pools, data cooperatives, public data trusts and personal data sovereignty. While major attention is currently given to the dominant model of corporate platforms collecting and economically exploiting massive amounts of personal data, other actors, such as small businesses, public bodies and civic society, take also part in data governance. The article examines four models of data governance emerging in the current platform society. We conceptualize this strategy as a form of "techcraft" to center attention on the means and mechanisms that Big Tech firms deploy to make users and user data measurable and legible as future revenue streams. However, our findings show that Big Tech firms turn "users" and "user engagement" into assets through the performative measurement, governance, and valuation of user metrics (e.g., user numbers, user engagement), rather than extending ownership and control rights over personal data per se. We analyse the transformation of personal data into an asset in order to explore how personal data is accounted for, governed, and valued by Big Tech firms and other political-economic actors (e.g., investors). These US-based firms are some of the largest in the world by market capitalization, a position that they retain despite growing policy and public condemnation-or "techlash"-of their market power based on their monopolistic control of personal data. ![]() Control over these data assets seems to explain the emergence and dominance of so-called "Big Tech" firms, consisting of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google/Alphabet, and Facebook. The article can be seen as a novel attempt as it empirically proves that FAANG has grown faster due to the power of surveillance capitalism.ĭigital personal data is increasingly framed as the basis of contemporary economies, representing an important new asset class. ![]() This paper also illuminates the nudging effect created by behaviour-centric advertisements, which results in the brand value appreciation of FAANG. Our undertaking shows that FAANG earns substantial revenue through data-driven business models catalysing the present companies' growth. ![]() Financial indicators like the EPS, ROE, Market Capitalization and ROA were used to capture the growth of FAANG. The relative valuation models were used to substantiate the exponential growth of FAANG companies from 2006 to 2020. A triangulation approach was used to observe the world of surveillance capitalism through multiple lenses. The fundamental research question is how the data-driven models trigger these companies’ future financial performance and ensure sustainable growth. This paper maps the idea of surveillance capitalism of FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google), which have capitalised on the behavioural surplus accumulated in their databases and how they utilise this data for future business models. ![]() |
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