![]() Nupedia and Wikipedia coexisted until the former's servers were taken down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. Language editions were created beginning in March 2001, with a total of 161 in use by the end of 2004. Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and web search engine indexing. Bomis originally intended for it to be a for-profit business. Otherwise, there were initially relatively few rules, and it operated independently of Nupedia. Its integral policy of "neutral point-of-view" was codified in its first few months. The name originated from a blend of the words wiki and encyclopedia. ![]() Wikipedia was launched on Janu as a single English-language edition at and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. The domains and (later redirecting to ) were registered on January 13, 2001, and January 12, 2001, respectively. On January 10, 2001, Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia. Wales is credited with defining the goal of making a publicly editable encyclopedia, while Sanger is credited with the strategy of using a wiki to reach that goal. Nupedia was initially licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License, but before Wikipedia was founded, Nupedia switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urging of Richard Stallman. Its main figures were Bomis CEO Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia. ![]() It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company. Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. Various collaborative online encyclopedias were attempted before the start of Wikipedia, but with limited success. Wikipedia founders Jimmy Wales (left) and Larry Sanger (right) ![]() Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events. Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South ( Eurocentrism). Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Initially only available in English, editions in other languages were quickly developed. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people. It consistently ranks as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 it is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL media licensing varies
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![]() This app lets you edit your profile when you tap on the circle profile image in the dashboard. WhatsApp on either a Mac or PC lets you perform basic actions. How can I use WhatsApp on PC without a phone? Another critical point is that WhatsApp logs a tremendous amount of personal information from users that can get shared. Media that is forwarded in WhatsApp is not end-to-end encrypted either. Messages not delivered right away to someone who is not online get stored on WhatsApp servers, making those messages not end-to-end encrypted. Since the word considers is used instead of a definite word, the validity of end-to-end encryption is unclear. The WhatsApp blog mentions that WhatsApp considers the chats sent with WhatsApp Business end-to-end encrypted. Privacy policies are essential to pay attention to because the information is often misleading or hidden within the terms. However, the encryption is not guaranteed, and only sometimes your information remains private between the recipients of your chats and yourself. This app uses end-to-end encryption to ensure your messages are secure. Privacy is constantly an issue when technology is involved. While WhatsApp is owned by one of the largest technology companies, this program is unsafe to use. You can use the search bar to find specific words or people within your chat history. The icons in the dashboard let you edit your profile, status, and settings and start new chats. You can find a list of your active conversations on the left and the current conversation thread on the right.Īdditional items on the left side include a dashboard and search bar. The UI is organized into a right and left side. The simple user interface will automatically launch after you complete the sync. Your WhatsApp web app will be linked to your WhatsApp mobile phone account. Aim your camera at the desktop screen to register the code.Open WhatsApp on your phone to go to the Menu and then Settings to click ‘WhatsApp Web.'.You must do a few steps on your phone before using WhatsApp on your computer or laptop. After downloading this app on your Mac, a QR code will appear on your screen. It needs to be installed on your phone before you can use the application on your Mac. Since this app is owned by Meta, or Metaverse, the mobile and PC versions are unavailable when Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down. WhatsApp for Mac is convenient when this software is not working on mobile devices. While the mobile version provides more services, the Mac version allows you conveniently send instant messages. WhatsApp is a chat app that lets you send texts, images, videos, and voice messages to recipients. ![]() The rules of solitaire are pretty simple to understand, especially if one already has experience playing card games. However, more versions could be invented due to the game's simplicity and the many rule combinations one could make. There are over 500 variations of Solitaire. ![]() How many versions of Solitaire are there? ![]() They don't usually help reveal hidden cards, either, so it's best to set them aside as soon as possible.ġ. Revealing the cards in stacks or columns will give you better chances of getting cards that could help you out when building your sequences. Do you remember? Solitaire is all about patience. The most crucial thing is to take your time and never rush. Some moves could become irreversible, making you unable to continue the game, so think about possible consequences or outcomes for each move you make. One of the best ways to improve your solitaire-playing skills is by educating yourself about gameplay strategies.īe mindful about each action you take. You win after all the card are placed in the foundation.ģ Tips and Reminders for Winning at Solitaire.The player may use the cards on the stock pile to help them build sequences.If there is an empty space on the tableau, only a king can fill it.If more than one card is face up on a pile, you can move them together. For example, you can play a red four on a black five. You can place any movable card on another one that is higher in rank and with the opposite color.The four aces in the deck will serve as the foundations that you place in a row above your initial 28 cards as soon as they become available.The rest of the cards will rest on a stock pile in your upper left hand. The top card on each pile stays facing up, while the others are face-down cards. The first pile would have one card the second one would have two the third pile would have three, and so on. Deal 28 cards in seven piles across your table.The goal is to build the four suits into a foundation of aces. You will need a standard deck to play a classic klondike game. Moreover, it's the version you can find on nearly every Microsoft computer since 1990, further cementing its place in modern culture. How to Play SolitaireĬlassic Solitaire, also known as klondike solitaire, is arguably the most popular form of solitaire today. Queen Victoria's German husband, Prince Albert, was notably fond of patience games. Some game variations have also been called patience, especially in England, Germany, and Portugal. This is also supported by the use of the alternative term "cabale", which originated from the Medieval Latin "caballa", meaning secret knowledge. The card game Solitaire likely originated from cartomancy or tarot as an early form of fortune telling due to how cards are laid out in both practices. However, this was a different game as it used pegs instead of cards. One of the first documented references to the word "solitaire" was in a 17th-century engraving featuring Anne-Joulie de Rohan-Chabot, Princess Soubise, playing solitaire. The origins of the game are a little hazy. The game involves arranging a shuffled deck of cards into a specified order or tableau, no matter the variation. Solitaire is the collective term for hundreds of card games and activities requiring only one person. ![]() ![]() ![]() UPDATE: I just tried to download something from the 3D warehouse so that I could capture the warning message and now it no longer shows the option to download into 2017 or 2018 and the warning I saw before is gone. So this may, for now anyway, just apply to downloading from 3D Warehouse into an unsupported version but I would not count on it. I just tried uploading a file in 2017 format to 3D warehouse and it did not give me any sort of warning about not being supported. So far, the only place that I have seen the message is when I downloaded something from the 3D warehouse and requested it be downloaded into 2017 format. They should still be able to access anything that is in the 3D warehouse after Jan 31st and they are using supported version (like the free online version). He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way. Like most CAD software there is a learning curve but their free online classes are excellent. It is free as long as you do not mind having your designs stored in the cloud as public (sort of l 3D warehouse). I have been slowly transitioning to when doing more complex drawings, especially for 3D printing and CNC projects, since last year but it looks like they are finally giving me the shove to get more proficient at it so that it is my first choice, even for simple quick and dirty sketches.Īnyway, if you want to grab something or you want to access your drawings stored in the 3D warehouse in an older version, you better download them now.īTW, I highly recommend On Shape if you are looking for a good CAD tool. Unless you buy it as soon as it comes out, the support life is actually less than 3 years. 3 years is pretty dang short for purchased software, IMO. There is an additional fee of $15.00 to expedite a request. The fee to search for a birth certificate is $15.00, which includes one certified copy of the birth record or a "Certificate of Failure to Find." Additional copies of the same record ordered at the same time are $6.00 each. View ID Requirements for more information. Legal representative of an authorized personĮffective May 1, 2017, identification will be required to obtain a restricted birth certificate.Sister or brother of person named on certificate.Son or daughter of person named on certificate.Husband or wife of person named on certificate.They may be obtained by the following persons, upon payment of the proper fee: Restrictionsīy Alabama law, birth certificates are confidential records with restricted access for 125 years from the date of birth. – 4:30 p.m.The Alabama Center for Health Statistics began filing birth certificates in 1908 for persons born in Alabama. Telephone: 40 Campbell City Office 4730 South Orange Blossom Trail Kissimmee, FL 34746 Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. Cloud, FL 34769 Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. Kissimmee, FL 34744 Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. Note: Tax Collector sites only provide birth certificates and a service charge of $6.25 is applied to each order. Select Osceola County Tax Collector’s Offices Kissimmee, FL 34744 Telephone: 40 Fax: 40 (For funeral home use only) Kissimmee Florida Department of Health in Osceola - Office of Vital Statistics 1875 Fortune Rd. Visit them on the web at An additional fee is charged by VitalChek for using this service, and all major credit cards are accepted. The Florida Department of Health in Osceola does not accept online orders directly however, for your convenience, you can process online requests through an independent company that we have partnered with to provide you this service VitalChek Network, Inc. Link to Death Certificate Application - Spanish (127KB, PDF). ![]() Link to Death Certificate Application - English (171KB, PDF).Death Certificates are $10.00 per copy.A Search Fee of $5.00 applies when the correct name and/or date of death is unknown.Include a self-addressed, postage paid 10x15 envelope with your order.Identification may be one of the following: For requests sent through the mail, please provide a legible photocopy. Applicants must be eighteen (18) years of age or older. Death Certificatesįor Persons Who Died in the State of Florida – 2009 to Present Apply in person or by mail. Link to Birth Certificate Application - Spanish (127KB, PDF).Link to Birth Certificate Application - English (518KB, PDF).This may be paid in lieu of sending a prepaid envelope. $3.00 each for additional Protective Covers.$8.00 for each additional copy purchased on the same date and for the same person.$20.00 for the first copy of a birth certificate (includes one protective cover).A Search Fee of $5.00 applies when the correct name and/or date of birth is unknown. ![]() Include a self-addressed, postage paid 9 ½ x 12 ½ envelope with your order.Payment may be cash, money order, credit/debit card, or certified check. ![]() All identification must be valid (it cannot be expired). For Persons Born in the State of Florida Apply in person or by mail. ![]() If you do not see your PayPal invoice within 2 business days of order confirmation, contact the Records Office. Within four days of order receipt, you should receive notice of your e-invoice in your e-mail via PayPal.Records Office staff will review your order and send a confirmation e-mail with record availability and fee total within two business days of order form receipt (Monday – Friday).If you do not see a confirmation message on the screen after clicking “Submit Order,” please scroll the form to make sure you have filled out all required fields then re-submit.If records are not available, you will be notified and the credit card information will be destroyed. If delivery option is not selected, standard delivery fees will be applied to your total. Credit cards will be charged the appropriate fee.If records are not available for your Winchester we will notify you and return your check.If delivery method is not selected, you will be contacted for payment. Choose your preferred delivery method and include that amount in your check.If the full fee is sent and order sheet information is not available, we will include a refund check in your factory letter packet. If mailing a check for a Model 21 letter, we suggest you contact the Records Office at 30 or to determine order sheet availability before sending it in.If you send the full fee by check and only the SNA records are available, we will include a refund check in your factory letter packet.Indicate your model and serial number in the appropriate place on the form. Include an e-mail address, if possible, for occasional updates on your order.Print an order form and mail it in with payment:.Standard delivery fee waived on orders using pre-purchased letter packs.Standard delivery fee waived on member benefit letter orders. ![]() Priority (US – $15, International – starting at $40).Have you checked the available serial numbers list to see if information is available on your Winchester (pages 3 and 4)? Visit to learn more about the club and WACA membership. Contact the Records Office with your WACA number to request the bonus. Unused WACA bonus searches expire 12 months from date of submission. Join the Center and get a bonus! Buffalo Bill Center of the West Firearms Members who are also Winchester Arms Collectors Association (WACA) members may request a bonus 15-pack of serial number searches once each year. A note for Winchester Arms Collectors members… Learn more about firearms membership here.įactory letters are typically completed and ready to mail about four weeks from payment receipt. Factory letters for Model 21s with order sheets are $122 and $92 without (non-member rate). Model 21 factory letter fees are dependent upon order sheet availability. The order sheet data can round out the information from the final inspection records. Order sheets are also available for many Model 21s. Customer information may be included on the record. These records contain manufacturing dates and configuration information. Model 21s were first manufactured in the early 1930s and we have final inspection records for the majority of Model 21s produced by Winchester. Model 21 shotguns are the exception to the above Winchester records information. Learn more about firearms membership here.įind the full list of available Winchester models and serial number ranges here (Winchester on pages 3 and 4). SNA records are available for many of the earlier Winchesters and are automatically included in those serial number searches and factory letters.įactory letters containing Winchester SNA dates only are $40 for non-members. These date-of-manufacture records are called Serial Number Application (SNA) records. Most Winchester records for firearms manufactured after 1906 to the end of the surviving records only contain dates of manufacture. Learn more about firearms membership here. Serial number application date information will be included when available.įactory letters on these firearms are $77 for individuals who are not Firearms Members of the Center. Customer data is rarely available for Winchesters. Configuration information may include caliber, barrel type, trigger type, and any special-order features. 1873 – 1906Ĭonfiguration records are available for most firearms manufactured between 1873 and approximately 1906 depending on the model. 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Seeing this visibly disturbs 2B, despite 9S' insistence that the machines don't have actual emotions. During their endeavors, 2B and 9S notice how many of their machine lifeform enemies are docile, with some having begun to take on human traits. Realizing that 9S has forgotten her yet again, 2B clenches her fist in frustration.Īfter having her boot sequence taken care of by 9S, the pair are sent to Earth in order to provide reconnaissance information and establish contact with the Resistance planetside. However, as there wasn't enough bandwidth and time, 9S only managed to send 2B's memories with his only intact up to the point of before meeting her. It is revealed that after detonating their black boxes, 2B's data was uploaded back to the Bunker and transferred to a new body, ensuring her survival. Faced with overwhelming odds, the pair are forced to detonate their black boxes in order to destroy the Goliaths. After the target is destroyed, 2B and 9S reunite, only for three more Engels machines to appear and attack them. 9S implores her to leave him to finish the mission and 2B hesitantly complies. After 2B makes her way to the top the briefly disabled Goliath, she finds a mortally wounded 9S and is briefly overcome with emotion in an attempt to save him. ![]() A fight ensues and 9S is severely damaged in the process. The pair explore the factory and are unable to find their target until it comes to life on the outskirts of the building. After becoming the only survivor of the assault, she meets up with her assigned Scanner, 9S. ![]() Over the course of hundreds of operations, 2B was forced to kill 9S and wipe his memory countless times, an act that she came to hate for the pain it caused her after bonding with him over that time.ĢB, along with a squadron of other YoRHa units, is sent to the Abandoned Factory to eliminate a Goliath-class target. She was given the designation of 2B as a cover by the Commander, who gave her orders to observe one of the new Scanner models in action during YoRHa's operations against the machines.ĢB's role was to ensure that 9S would not discover the true nature of Project YoRHa by executing him in case he dug too deep because of the natural curiosity programmed into him. 6.3 War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave ExviusĢB was created an unspecified amount of times before the events of the game as part of the new line of YoRHa androids. ![]() It can do a lot more than playing songs stored on the hard drive.ĪIMP provides a good looking interface for organizing your song library, creating custom and smart playlists, rips CDs, manage meta tags, change player skins, etc.įurthermore, AIMP can be a choice worth considering if you’re in search of a player for PC with equalizer. Supported Platforms: Windows, Android, iOSįor those people who consider visual appearance as a deal-breaker, AIMP is a top-rated music player in that sector. Contains various advanced features such as CD ripping and burning, player controls, and more.Then come the numerous keyboard shortcuts which you can customize at your will. It supports automatic meta import, CD ripping, and it can access compressed archives like ZIP, GZIP, 7z, etc. But as it’s said, don’t judge a book by its cover.įooBar2000 can play a range of audio formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, FLAC, WAV, Opus, Speex, etc. Some users might not like it, because, 2022 is here and people might not want to see a music player that appears to be designed for Windows 98. In the first look, the interface is more minimalistic than any other audio app for PC out there. Foobar2000 apps are available for Android and iOS, as well. You can find this music software as a UWP app for Windows 10 and above. Thus, it’s easier to add new features and components to the free music player.įoobar2000 desktop app is available for Windows 10/11 and older versions it also offers portable installation. Modular design of this simple music player for Windows 10/11 is big plus point. Since its inception, foobar2000 has generated a cult following. Moreover, a UWP version of MusicBee is also available in Store. But this Windows music player is also available as a portable version. It can be installed on Windows, just like any other software. MusicBee and doesn’t consume much space on your hard drive. MusicBee’s list of features includes support for 15-band equalizer, DSP effects, CD ripping, automatic metadata import, etc. You can customize MusicBee with a number of skins and plugins (also supports some Winamp plugins). It can also keep an eye on your hard drive for changes and update the music library automatically. This audio player can sync your songs with Android phones, some iOS devices, USB drives, and other portable music players. It comes with support for various audio formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, APE, TAK, etc. MusicBee can easily import your iTunes music library. The creators of this free music player have made it easier for people who want to make a switch. MusicBee is nearly a decade old and also works on Windows 7 and Windows 8.Īs soon as you start using the music player, you’ll immediately appreciate its neat and clean user interface that is complemented by the color combination. It is another well-known name in our list of the best music player for Windows 10/11. The NURBS format is the IGES Rational B-Spline Curve Online converter, capable of converting airfoil dat files to NURBSįormat. XFOIL and XFLR5 did not like it so I tookĪirfoil Coordinates Converter to IGES NURBS Format (by Flusur) From Salvatore Dona - Flusur is pleased to announce its new There is aĬosine weighted leading/trailing edge scheme in there too, though May be sectioned to create the curves quite easily. Sent in Rhino format, very common to the marine industry. It is very useful for evaluating airfoils The curve must of course be the trailing edge and point upwardĪlong the upper surface. 'walk' a NURBS curve, and output the values. Using the "Selig" format, then fits a through point NURBS curve Has written some VBScript for Rhinoceros for importing andĮxporting airfoil shapes. The propeller geometryĪnother Coordinate Importer/Exporter for Rhino (CAD/CAM software) Propeller geometry using airfoils from the UIUC Airfoil Database Propeller Factory Using UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database (at Thingiverse) Johann Schuster has made a nice python script to produce a Many of the airfoils in the database were smoothed by Selig, and these include 'sm' in the name. The code removes bad kinks in the airfoil surface curvature that can give rise to spikes (non-smoothness) in the velocity distributions.Īdded online at PDAS by Ralph Carmichael. AFSMO Airfoil Smoothing Code from NASA (hosted by PDAS)įor coordinates that are not smooth, the NASA AFSMO smoothing code (airfoil smoothing code) can be used to smooth the points. There is also a Python port of the Rhino rvb script here: It will then prompt for the airfoil file. Then use the RunScript command to run it. Use the Rhino LoadScript command to add and then load the script The script is ImportAirfoil.rvb on github. Separate from the plug-in is a Rhino 7 script. Upper surface trailing edge around the leading edge to the lower The plug-in requires that the airfoils be in the It requires a Rhino 7 or newer, or Rhino for Mac V7 or newer. Written a Plug-In to plot airfoils from the database. Rhino Plug-In to Import Airfoil Coordinates, and Rhino Script (CAD/CAM software)ĭale Fugier, one of the developers of Rhinoceros (Rhino3D), has The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage Interested in knowing what airfoils are used on what aircraft?ĭavid Lednicer has created here a great compilation of aircraft
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