![]() Released in April 2015, the base game provided a compelling experience that was close to being a solid spiritual-successor to Master of Orion 2 (for which people have clamored for decades). Despite many thoughtful mechanics, the game never quite reached its ambition due to a combination of clunky gameplay, bugs and a late-game that drowned in its own tedium. Our sensors are weak… We didn’t see an eXpansion coming More distressing, many feared that SD2 wouldn’t receive enough long-term support to fix these problems, much less an expansion… Yet here is Sector Zero. On paper, the list of changes in Sector Zero is impressive: four new victory conditions, revamped ground combat, sector-based territory control, and a hearty dose of new technologies, events, and galactic features. With an increasingly crowded 4X market space, however, the question at hand is this: does Sector Zero bring enough to the table to reinvigorate SD2 and help it reach its potential?Įxploration has always been one of SD2 ’s strong points. ![]() ![]() A diverse menu of strategic resources to secure (all with unique and powerful benefits to your empire), combined with an abundance of narrative events, quest sequences, and special research projects means that venturing into space is always exciting. Whereas the late-game tended to bog down in micromanagement hell (at least in the base game), the early game was punctuated by plenty of discovery and tension. Sector Zero builds on this eXploration strength by adding a new layer to the strategic landscape: the sector system. While the basics of fleet movement and navigation remain the same (e.g. You can send your fleets to any exact point, limited only by the fuel on your ships), the galaxy is now divided into a series of hex-shaped sectors, which provides an organizing structure to the landscape. For example, ship sensors now function in terms of sector range, so a ship with level 2 sensors can detect objects two sectors away. Stepping back from SD2 for a moment, a weakness of many space 4X games is that space is so often devoid of any semblance of terrain, which would otherwise shape the landscape in the way that mountains or oceans might in a terrestrial game. This can result in ship movement being somewhat bland, with no organic choke points or open fields to cross. Other games have tried to rectify this by creating a galactic topology through the use of star lanes. Thankfully, Sector Zero takes a different approach.īees… Honeycomb… Hexagons… Sectors… It’s perfectly natural. The sector system provides a structure for introducing terrain into the galaxy. Large nebulas or ion storms can now span across multiple sectors. They will dramatically slow down ship movement, forcing you to decide between taking the long way around or pushing through. These terrain features can also affect your ships’ performance in combat, such as disabling shields or weakening beam weapons. Theoretically you could use this to your advantage if you knew what types of equipment your opponent had, but in actuality you rarely have the chance to create these opportunities. ![]() Nevertheless, the addition of terrain makes the galaxy a bit more interesting to navigate. Where you stage your defensive fleets, in particular, needs to be considered more carefully now.īeyond the larger galactic terrain features, sectors can also be populated by special landmarks. Landmarks include things like black holes, ancient fuel deposits, crystal clouds, ordinance caches, and more. Discovering and controlling these sectors can provide special empire bonuses and ties into one of the new victory conditions (more on that later). One of the major criticisms of the base game of SD2 is that it was unclear how your empire’s borders grew over time and what function borders and territory served in the first place.
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This is often the case, as it's easier to secure a single SSH server against attacks than to secure a variety of different network resources. But if you have access to an SSH server at the office, and that SSH server allows connections from outside the office network, then you can connect to that SSH server from home and access the database server as if you were in the office. For security reasons, that database server is only configured to accept connections from the local office network. For example, let's say you want to access a database server at your office from your home. "Local port forwarding" allows you to access local network resources that aren't exposed to the Internet. Local Port Forwarding: Make Remote Resources Accessible on Your Local System On Windows, which doesn't include a built-in ssh command, we recommend the free tool PuTTY to connect to SSH servers. You can do this with the ssh command included on Linux, macOS, and other UNIX-like operating systems, and you can create an ssh config file to save your settings. The traffic is sent over the encrypted SSH connection, so it can't be monitored or modified in transit. Each involves using an SSH server to redirect traffic from one network port to another. There are three different types of SSH tunneling, and they're all used for different purposes. ![]() Inside this outer ring is a silvery inner minute ring, with five-minute faceted 3D indices that look a bit like bars of silver, subdivided by thin minute markers. (“El Primero,” of course, means “the first” - and this was the first chronograph movement to achieve such a frequency.) The small fractions are a visual way to call out the El Primero chronograph caliber’s ability to measure stopped times to 1/10 second, thanks to its 36,600-vph frequency - the technical breakthrough that earned the El Primero its fame in horological circles lo those many decades ago. Beneath the crystal, and descending downward, we find an outer flange in a sort of cobalt blue, with a 0-to-60 seconds scale printed in white, with Arabic numerals at the 5-second markers and fraction-of-a-second subdivisions. The steel, plunger-style chronograph pushers have a pleasant tactile feel, and the grooved winding crown - which does not screw down, partially explaining this watch’s relatively modest water resistance of 100 meters - has a relief engraving of Zenith’s star logo.Ĭontinuing on to the dial (such as it is): the first design element of note is one that would normally be part of the dial, but in this case is not: the “Zenith” and “El Primero” logos, both of which are printed on the surface of the sapphire crystal and hovering over the watch’s openworked front face, lending it an impressive sense of depth. The sapphire crystal over the openworked dial is described in the press materials as “domed,” but it’s more precisely described as flat with a subtle convex slope. The caseback, which surrounds a sapphire exhibition window, is secured by four screws. The shiny surface does impart an air of luxury, though it certainly renders the case more vulnerable to fingerprints and smudges after excessive handling. To start with the case: The 42-mm-diameter stainless steel case has a gleaming, polished finish, except for the sharply curved and faceted lugs, which appear to be brushed on their front surfaces. model in a head-on fashion: what better way to call attention to your movement than by putting it on display on the front of the watch as well as the back? Here’s my take on the Chronomaster El Primero Full Open in steel. For the Chronomaster El Primero Full Open - the watch that I had the pleasure of wearing recently - Zenith tackled the issue of movement vs. In the modern, post-mechanical-watch-renaissance era, Zenith has understandably focused on its prize pony, using the El Primero - in some cases, modifying and even improving upon it - in a wide range of timepieces. Its odyssey is now a part of watchmaking lore: famously tucked away in an attic by a quietly insubordinate Zenith employee named Charles Vermot and thus rescued from its corporate-ordered extinction as the 1970s quartz crisis wreaked havoc on the Swiss watch industry and threatened to render such micro-mechanical wonders obsolete. The high-frequency chronograph caliber famously burst on the scene in 1969 - the seminal year of the Great Automatic Chronograph Race, about which much ink and pixels have already been spilled. Whereas many brands in its category are known for a flagship watch model - Omega for the Speedmaster, Audemars Piguet for the Royal Oak, Rolex for the Submariner, the Daytona - well, name just about any Rolex model - Zenith’s fame comes chiefly not from a model per se but from a movement - the legendary El Primero. ![]() While the conversation was largely off the record, the gist of it was about the challenge that a brand like Zenith faces from a marketing standpoint in today’s crowded, competitive luxury watch market. Something to fill the desirability gap for that unattainable Daytona? Or a uniquely cool watch on its own terms? It’s both.Several years ago, I had the pleasure of touring the Zenith manufacture in Le Locle, Switzerland, and afterward had the chance to speak with representatives of the brand. The overlapping sundials, pump-style side pushers and 41mm case remain. The “quintessential Zenith sporty-chic chronograph” now comes in new models with new case materials: 18kt rose gold with a rose gold bracelet and two-tone 18k rose gold with a stainless steel bracelet. It means it can record elapsed time down to not just the second, but to 1/10th of a second, a breakthrough in watchmaking. Plus, Zenith equipped its new Chronomaster with its proprietary “El Primero” movement, a mechanism with an uncommonly high frequency – way faster than Rolex’s. Rolex’s icon with the ceramic bezel and panda dial is one of the best-looking designs ever made. The similarities to Rolex’s Cosmograph Daytona were much-remarked upon when it came out last year, but if you’re going to be compared to one watch, it may as well be that. ![]() However, if you get a winning combination, you will lose all the free spins you have collected so far. Your average stake will be used to calculate your winnings. You can use your free spins at any time by clicking “Take”. 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The Eastern Sierra has long been a spot where geologists go to study the active earthquake faults that give the Sierra Nevada - California’s mightiest mountain range - its dramatic topography. Over the past 24 hours, Los Angeles had 5 small quakes between magnitudes 1.0 and 2.0. It was probably a fairly good shake that was pretty alarming,” Elliott said. San Diego has had: (M1.5 or greater) 1 earthquake in the past 24 hours. San Francisco Bay Area, California has had: (M1.5 or greater) 1 earthquake in the past 24 hours. Living on a relatively high floor of a building in San Francisco “may have certainly amplified the experience - compared to neighbors and other friends around me who did not feel the earthquake,” Elliott said during the news briefing.įor people in the Bay Area, “this one - because of its distance - was probably more perceptible in places that really amplify the slow, distant waves - and so, like the high building that I’m in,” he said.īut in places such as Reno or Carson City, Nev., “this was a much stronger jolt through there. Dog ran around a bit,” he wrote on Twitter. People living on top of basin sediments and soft soils are at higher risk of feeling amplified shaking from a distant quake, whereas people living on bedrock, a hillside or a ridge are less likely to feel it.Įlliott, who was in San Francisco when Thursday’s quake hit, said he felt strong shaking. It’s expected for a quake of this magnitude to be felt broadly across the state, Elliott said. Photo credits: (1) Arnold Genthe, Steinbrugge Collection of the UC Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Research Center (2) Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (3) Portland Cement Association (4) Bolt. There have been a couple of dozen earthquakes larger than magnitude 5 in the region of Thursday’s quake in the last 50 years. Click on image for selected historic California earthquake photos. Thursday’s earthquake was the largest in the region since the magnitude 6.1 Double Spring Flat earthquake in 1994 in sparsely populated western Nevada, which was felt from Sacramento to Elko, Nev., but did not result in loss of life. A pair of 3.0 magnitude earthquakes hit Southern California Tuesday night, according to the United States Geological Surve y. Here’s a basic primer on the science of earthquakes. 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![]() Whether it’s a video conference or live TV, Lenarduzzi says another common pitfall is people forgetting they’re on camera. “It won’t feel so foreign next time when you're actually doing it for real.” The call can be on your phone, but make sure your webcam is on so you can practise seeing yourself and your mannerisms,” Tang says. “Take a phone call using your webcam to prep. You don’t want to join a call using the webcam as a mirror to make any finishing touches to your hair, face or lighting you could’ve done earlier. “Especially when you’re really close to your computer camera, you don’t want to show off bad hygiene and bad skincare habits,” Yara says. (Also, if sitting in front of a window, make sure you use a product with sun protection.) Meanwhile, use lip balm for chapped lips, and regularly wash your face to avoid blemishes. “It’s not full-on foundation, but a lot of the men on camera tend to wear tinted moisturiser so it doesn’t look like they’re wearing just a full face of makeup,” says Yara. (Tinted moisturiser is filled with subtle pigments of makeup that help your skin tone appear even.) The experts recommend applying a tinted moisturiser to your face before booting up your video meeting. (Zoom also has a filter used to even your skin tone.) Be on the lookout for uneven skin tone or chapped lips, too. She recommends blotting your face before you go live. The camera can make bad habits “look ten times worse,” says Tang, as the computer screen tends to highlight things like oil on your face. In our webcam-dominated situation, practising good skincare is even more important than usual. “Angles make a big difference,” she says. Cookbooks or coffee table books work well, Yara suggests. You can easily give your laptop some lift by stacking a bunch of things just lying around. “You want to make sure your computer’s at least a little bit elevated so that you don’t have the double-chin effect the computer’s looking up your nostrils,” says Lenarduzzi. It’s one of the cardinal rules in camerawork: keep the camera eye-level or higher. ![]() Video chatting in a windowless room? Putting a lamp behind your laptop and in front of your face works in a pinch, the pros say. It doesn’t end there: light coming from behind you could also cause for a harsh effect on everyone else’s screen, says Susan Yara, a TV journalist-turned-entrepreneur, and who runs a YouTube channel and digital production focused on beauty and lifestyle: “You don’t want to hurt everyone’s eyes.” After all, assuming bad lighting doesn’t render you a dark shadow, it can cast unflattering shadows on your face, making you look tired, ill or even creepy – the opposite of that natural light effect. “Bad lighting is always a fear,” says Nyma Tang, a beauty YouTuber whose channel has more than a million subscribers. Because whether you’re snapping a pic for Instagram or dialling in for a video call, having that light come from behind you ends up drowning you out entirely, reducing you to an inscrutable silhouette. Set up your computer in front of a window, and importantly, make sure that light is hitting your face straight-on. “It’s amazing for making your eyes pop and making you look really presentable on camera,” says Lenarduzzi. It evenly accentuates and brightens your skin and features, giving you a clear, flattering, movie-star-like quality. If you take away nothing else, focus on your lighting.įront-facing natural light is best. Here are their tips to look nice and professional on camera. We talked to people whose job largely features talking in front of a webcam all day. It’s not just vanity: viewers could “make snap judgments, unfortunately, about you as a person,” says Sunny Lenarduzzi, a Vancouver-based online entrepreneur, former TV reporter and regular YouTuber. That means figuring out how to flatter your face on your colleagues’ laptop screens, or the importance of a tidy living room in the background. Now that Zoom, Skype and other services have taken over our daily lives as we know it – including job interviews and dinner parties – many are wondering how to look as good on the internet as they do in person. Sitting in front of a webcam for hours is now normal – for both business meetings and sharing a ‘ quarantini’ during virtual happy hours. Worldwide, likely tens of millions are working from home as part of social distancing. The global pandemic has ground much of the world to a halt. |
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