![]() ![]() no MAC address obtained).įix: Permission error preventing installation of Python add-ons. New: Sort method for recordings based on season and episode.įix: Crash when navigating an empty guide.įix: Hiding/deleting channel group now working correctly.įix: Any Favourites for a restricted/locked media source are now hidden.įix: Blu-ray ISO title and watched status now displayed correctly.įix: Wrong language identified from subtitle name corrected.įix: ASS subtitles display now working correctly.įix: Various TrueHD stutter/dropout issues corrected.įix: Mouse cursor positioning in full-screen.įix: Flickering with interlaced H.264 SD on AMD GPUs.įix: Crash on unexpected network configuration (e.g. Kore or JSON to pause Kodi.įix: English keyboard missing semi-colon.įix: Chinese keyboard character now displaying correctly. Full changelog since 19.3 on Github, as usual.įix: Home screen context menu fix for when there are more than 10 items in menu.įix: Seekbar wouldn't disappear after 5 sec when using remote app e.g. It's point release o'clock once more, so, without further fanfare, I give you Kodi "Matrix" 19.4: more bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. You have in this same article the complete list of changes of this new version that represents the future of KODI for the next years. ![]() ![]() We will also have improvements to play contents based on the AV1 codec, now it is possible to decode this format by software. On the other hand there is more control over add-ons that will block the ability to overwrite official repositories. Undoubtedly Kodi is the most popular content manager today and as we know the most important change in this version is on the add-ons aspect, now are based in Phyton 3 and this will block all add-ons that are not updated, something that will certainly generate many problems. ![]()
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![]() If it's slightly less than 100Hz, you'll need to turn the trimmer anti-clockwise.Ħ) Turn the trimmer a fraction in the direction you need to go. If it's greater than 100Hz (ie double the C4 note), you'll need to turn the (Scale 1) trimmer clockwise (looking from the component side of the board - ie with the front panel removed). Set this to loop continuously.Ģ) Turn VCO1 level full up, and VCO2 full downģ) Use a frequency meter - I used Pitch lap Pro (free) on my phoneĤ) Turn the main Tune knob (big one on the front) until the frequency of the lower C4 note is a nice round number (I used 50Hz)ĥ) Note the Frequency of the C5 note. I have just tuned mine, and I did the following.ġ) On a DAW, set up a MIDI Loop putting out about 2 seconds of C4 and 2 Seconds of C5 - ie an octave apart. Vertflyer wrote:Could someone post up some details or hints on proper calibration? I spent a long time last night trying to get this right and it still seems like an inexact science of a procedure. ![]() Help! Someone please say there is a foolproof procecedure I’m missing that makes this process easy. I would like there to be a way to calibrate this synth using nothing but a meter or tuner but it seems I can’t get around using my own ears to at least get the trims in the right ballpark, and then I still can’t find tune anything. Help!ĥ) if I can’t use a meter, using my ears to get the scale 1 in the approximate right place is a trip because the starting and ending note keeps changing and it’s hard to just ballpark an octave when the base frequency keeps changing so then I move the big pot tune knob. Which leads to the next question.ģ) should I use a tuner to set scale 1, or can I use a meter? If I use a meter, where should I measure the voltage? And how many octaves should I use? Why does it seem like the scale 1 trim knob is so course that I can’t finely turn it enough to get scale 1 set right?Ĥ) It’s all circular, when I can't set scale 1 right, I then wonder if my default starting trim settings on the other trims are wrong, and then wonder if the main pot tune should not be moved, then wonder if I should be using a meter, and I go in circles never getting scale 1 to be right. Are you using one octave or two to set this? It seems like no matter where I set scale 1, it’s not exactly right. Is it ok to move the main tune pot on the front to help with setting scale 1? Or does that just keep making my scale 1 setting change? The reason I ask is cause I’m trying to use a chromatic tuner to help with scale 1 and it helps to start at a correct note. I can’t figure out if it helps to have all the trims starting at fully counter clockwise or fully clockwise or all approximately in the middle? It seems some of these options lead me to run out of trim in one direction if that makes any sense.Ģ) So there is a master tune trim and then the big tune pot on the front side. ![]() But it seems to me that default settings per trim makes a difference. A couple questions.ġ) The instructions say that order matters and that seems to be the case, scale 1, scale 2, tune 2, master. ![]() ![]() Could someone post up some details or hints on proper calibration? 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Koch is on the board of directors of Koch Industries. In 2022, Koch put the apartment at 740 Park Avenue on the market a spokesperson said that she wanted to sell it because she was spending more time at houses in Southampton and Palm Beach. As a result, she was listed by Bloomberg as the richest woman in the world and was included on Forbes' list of the 10 richest women in the world in 2020. ĭavid Koch died in August 2019, and Julia Koch and their three children (David Jr., Mary Julia, and John Mark ) inherited 42% of Koch Industries. In 2018, the couple also bought an eight-bedroom townhouse in Manhattan from investor Joseph Chetrit for $40.25 million. According to 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building, David Koch bought the apartment for about $17 million from the Japanese government, which previously used it to house their permanent representative to the United Nations. Julia and David Koch spent years living in an apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, but in 2004 they moved to an 18-room duplex at 740 Park Avenue. McCarthy said she was "one of those people who occur in New York every few years.she's beautiful, she loves fashion, she knows how to entertain, she's married to an extraordinarily rich man." įred Thompson (left), David Koch (center), and Julia Koch in 2007 ![]() She was co-chairwoman of the gala that year, along with Anna Wintour and Patrick McCarthy. In December 1997, she made what the New York Times called her "New York society debut" at the Met Gala. She stopped working in 1993, and they got married in May 1996 at David Koch's house on Meadow Lane in Southampton. However, the two met again at a party later that year and started dating. She later described her reaction: "I'm glad I met that man because now I know I never want to go out with him". 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![]() ![]() And if you know anything about photo interpretation, you know the tulou story is ridiculous. Because today, unlike 20 years ago, I spend a lot of my time interpreting satellite images. This vignette came back to me after Eveleth found those silos. Another local, who was a big advocate for preserving the heritage of the area, pointed out that the story was an “unproven rumor and should not be hyped in tourism promotion.” The local official denied telling the story, while the father and daughter admitted that it was a completely fictional account. A Japanese architect read the article and was impressed enough that he wanted to come visit Fujian and see them for himself-but it took two or three years to get the visit cleared.Ī different local scholar tracked down the authors of the original story, a father and his daughter who was in college at the time, as well as the local official to whom the story was attributed. One Chinese scholar pointed out a pretty obvious flaw: “in the 1980s, coastal cities had just implemented an opening-up policy, and the unopened mountainous villages did not allow foreigners to inspect at will.” He had published an academic article in an international architecture journal on those very same roundhouses in 1984. But even back in the mid-2000s, it was pretty clear to a lot of Chinese that the roundhouse story was ridiculous. Local officials went along with it because it was good for tourism-and because it fit a national narrative of paranoid Americans misinterpreting a peaceful China. The story was made up in a 1999 online Chinese magazine and went viral in China at about the same time I started traveling there. The first time I heard this story, I almost kind of believed it. ( Hint, hint.) You can find this story in guidebooks like Lonely Planet or Rough Guide from the period, and it gets reprinted from time to time in state media like Beijing Review. government had to dispatch a team to the area to investigate, only to realize their mistake but fall in love with the beauty of the place. Ultimately-and this is how the locals claim they found out about it-the U.S. intelligence analysts saw those circles in satellite images for the first time in the 1980s, they mistook them for missile silos. ![]() The Hakka there traditionally lived in communal roundhouses called tulou, and a lot of guidebooks told the same story about those houses, trying to lure the reader to take a long bus ride to a tourist site and cough up 50 yuan for entrance.įrom the air, those roundhouses look like giant circles. If you happen to have flipped through a guidebook to China back then, you might well have come across an interesting story about an ethnic Hakka community in the province of Fujian. I started traveling to China in the early 2000s. ![]() After all, China is thought to have just about 100 nuclear weapons that can reach the United States-that’s up from just 18 when I was a graduate student two decades ago. Two hundred or 300 silos is, potentially, a pretty big development. “If you enjoy looking at commercial satellite imagery or stuff in China, can I suggest you keep looking?” (Another group has now found a third site that they describe as early construction for a third field of silos, although it is in a very early stage of construction and differs in some respects from the first two sites, which are extremely similar.) “I usually have to pay someone to do that,” the commander of U.S. Both of us expected he would find something, but the sheer number was a jolt.Ī week or so after Eveleth shared his findings, another researcher named Matt Korda reported finding a second field large enough to eventually accommodate another 100 or more silos. I had spent the previous summer working with Eveleth on mapping China’s nuclear forces for a project at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and had encouraged him to take a second look. This summer, my former colleague Decker Eveleth discovered that China was constructing more than 100 missile silos in the country’s remote interior. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect it would be very dangerous to get close to the ground flying like this. Not only would this take a high performance aircraft but a high performance pilot. I would expect more like it slowly lifting itself from the ramp, likely twist about slowly from the prop torque to clear the ramp, then get a bit of forward motion to steady itself, and then gain some altitude and transition to level flight. I wouldn't expect it to zoom off like some rocket, or even burst into the air like that little electric model airplane. Then for an encore the airplane could tilted up with some kind of hydraulic ramp to nearly vertical, and take off almost straight up into the air. ![]() ![]() With all wheels on the ground the prop could be feathered and brakes applied to minimize forward movement. It could come in real slow down to the runway and then shortly after the tail wheel touches the ground it "belly flops" on to the front wheels. I can imagine an airplane flying like this down to a runway and landing in a space not much bigger than the plane itself. The question is more like, is there video of full sized airplane with a pilot inside flying about like a helicopter? I've seen full sized piloted propeller airplanes go straight up before, and reaching considerable speeds and altitude in the process, so there's propeller aircraft with enough power to pull this off. This radio controlled airplane proved the aerodynamics worked. The question isn't so much about if this is physically possible. This would require a powerful airplane like those built for racing and aerobatics. This would require an airplane with a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1-to-1, and likely other features like a radiator capable of dissipating the engine heat with far less than optimal airflow. I can imagine that this is an impossible maneuver by most aircraft by the virtue of the propeller providing all the lift. The aircraft's ability to launch or recharge from overhead power lines didn't interest me as much as the idea of an aircraft that looked like a very typical single propeller airplane flying around like a helicopter. The idea of launching from and returning to a horizontal wire was to allow the drone to recharge from overhead power lines. The commentary on the video I saw of this aircraft explained that the idea was to use this as an observation drone that was capable of flying like any airplane would to get high speed and long range, at least faster and farther than one could expect from a quad rotor drone, as well as achieve a near hover, able to follow a slow moving target or make tight circles about a stationary target. It could navigate quite well this way with its nose in the air "helicoptering" about, then once it found the wire it launched from with its hooks it could cut the engine and hang from the wire. It could travel horizontally "forward" (belly first), "backward" (top first), perhaps even side to side (wingtip first) while maintaining a consistent altitude. As I recall it could steer itself around using control surfaces no different from those on any airplane, at least nothing stuck out as unusual about the control surfaces and I don't recall anything in the commentary that would indicate the control surfaces deviated from the norm. Then to get back to it's launching point it would point its nose into the air and fly about almost like a helicopter. It could then fly about like a typical airplane would. The "trick" it could do was that it could hang from these hooks vertically from a horizontal wire suspended in the air and launch itself into the air using this single propeller for thrust. It looked like a typical remote controlled airplane except its single propeller appeared rather oversized for the airplane, and it had small hooks on the end of stiff wires that extended forward from the wings to out beyond the propeller. What makes me ask is that I saw a battery powered remote control airplane that flew in this manner. If there's a different name for this maneuver then I'd like to know what that is. With the nose of the aircraft pointed nearly vertically it should be quite obvious that nearly all the lift is from the prop. I expect the airplane to move horizontally quite slowly, slowly enough that the wings provide very little lift. I don't expect the airplane to hover, and I expect that to be impossible since the torque of the engine would leave the airplane spinning like a top. What I'm talking about with what I would call a "helicopter" maneuver in an airplane is to fly with the nose pointed nearly straight up while maintaining a constant altitude. Has anyone tried to "helicopter" an airplane? And succeeded? And posted this video on the internet where I can find it? ![]() |
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