![]() ![]() This might seem like no big deal, but the problem is that Corgan's guitar is quieter on this mix throughout the entire show. First off, it's been mixed to the right channel, as opposed to the center or left channel as heard on other broadcasts and soundtracks, and now Iha's guitar is in the left. Of course, that's what you get for a video soundtrack, where the focus is more on the visuals and keeping everything a comfortable listen.Īnother thing about the DVD soundtrack which isn't ideal is that even though the soundtrack is in good balance, with Corgan's vocals and the rest of the instrumentation even with each other, there is now a problem regarding Corgan's guitar in the mix. The quiet moments never get as quiet as they should be, and the loud moments never get as loud as they should be. This goes for all songs where that sort of dynamic interplay is present. Whereas on the DVD soundtrack everything is kept at nearly the same level, so the effect of these types of moments is lost. For instance, in the quiet breakdown in the middle of "Geek USA", on the audience source the difference between soft/loud is well preserved, so that when the band come crashing back in, you can hear the bombast of it. Yes, the soundtrack to the video is crystal clear, and has all the visuals to boot, but there is significant compression on the soundtrack which mutes the dynamics of many of the songs. UPDATE DECEMBER 2011: With the release of the Siamese Dream Deluxe Reissue, the complete proshot video with professional multitrack sound is now available via the accompanying "Live at the Metro 1993" DVD.Īs for how the DVD soundtrack compares to the other sources, believe it or not I still prefer the audience recording. The soundboard and the FM version both have problems with the mix of the vocals and the instruments, which makes those sources difficult to listen to.īig thanks to the taper for taping and sharing. This audience source is excellent, complete, and features everything in balance. It makes the out-of-balance soundboard and incomplete FM recording both redundant. Also added new short clip to show how to select sections interactively and edit them with "stEditSectionsHint".This audience recording is the definitive version of this show.
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![]() ![]() However, the show was not renewed after the 2006 season. The show contained many parodies of events in Bernie’s actual life. It was a success, in part because it allows Mac to stay true to his stand-up comedy roots, breaking the fourth wall to communicate his thoughts to the audience. In the show, he suddenly becomes custodian over his sister’s three children after she enters rehab. In 2001, Fox gave Mac his own sitcom called The Bernie Mac Show, somewhat based on his own life. The comedy act was filmed by Spike Lee and was included later in the film The Original Kings of Comedy. In 2000, Mac returned to his stand-up comedy roots, touring the country as one of The Original Kings of Comedy, along with Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer and D.L. ![]() He also starred in Guess Who?, a comedic remake of the film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and made an appearance in the 2007 film Transformers as the car salesman “Bobby Bolivia.” In 2003, he turned in an impressive performance in a small but important role as “Gin, The Store Dick” in Bad Santa. Mac was one of the few African American comedic actors to be able to break out of the traditional “black comedy” genre, having roles in the 2001 remake of Ocean’s Eleven and becoming the new Bosley for the Charlie’s Angels sequel, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. ![]() Following that role, Mac also worked in many other films and had some television appearances in titles including, Booty Call, How to Be a Player, Life and What’s the Worst That Could Happen?. Later, Mac also began acting in minor roles and received his big break as “Pastor Clever” in Ice Cube’s 1995 film Friday. He also had a short-lived talk show on HBO titled Midnight Mac. He opened for Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx and Natalie Cole. A performance on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam thrust him into the spotlight. He won the Miller Lite Comedy Search at the age of 32, at which point his popularity as a comedian began to grow. Mac started as a stand-up comedian in Chicago’s Cotton Pickin’ Club. During his 20s he worked in a variety of jobs, including furniture mover, UPS agent and bread delivery sales rep. He put on shows for neighborhood kids on Chicago’s South Side until briefly moving to Tampa, Florida. Mac attended Chicago Vocational Career Academy and started his comedy career during high school. She died of cancer when he was 16 years old. Mac was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised by a single mother, Mary. NBC’s “The Tonight Show” and “Late Friday”, Fox’s “Mad TV”, Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend”, HBO Def Comedy Jam, “It’s Showtime at the Apollo”, and BET’s “Comic View”. He has appeared at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and the Chicago Comedy Festival.Ĭorey’s film and television credits include 20th Century Fox’s “Like Mike”, a recurring role on UPN’s “Half & Half”. He has taken top honors at the Miller Genuine Draft Comedy Search, Budweiser Comedy Competition, Chicago Home Jam, and Laffapalooza. He was a smashing success and has been a full-time comedian ever since. No matter how cold his stories of poverty, street life, and women may be, he always warms you with his charming smile, and he certainly leaves you rolling with laughter.Ĭorey hit his first open mic in 1992 when Adele Givens called him to the stage. ![]() A native of inner city Chicago, Corey’s distinctive voice of what it means to be “ghetto” and what it takes to be a player makes him one the most engaging and appealing acts in comedy. Corey Holcomb will perform a stand-up comedy at a funeral if they’re serving drinks. ![]() ![]() ![]() And some of the most revered artistic expressions of sexuality in the history of cinema, notably Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses (1976), are, in effect, pornographic that’s an element of their power. ![]() There are, for instance, exploitation films, including some pretty big-budget ones (like, say, Basic Instinct), that are tinged with sleaze and don’t really pretend to be art but that nevertheless tap deeply into the erotic imagination of the audience. ![]() Because sexuality in movies can’t be categorized nearly that simply. The trouble with this argument isn’t just that it patronizes the fans of Blue Is the Warmest Color who happen to be men, but that it draws a neat and clean distinction between the “artistic, enlightened” depiction of female sexuality on screen and the “voyeuristic, arousing” depiction of female sexuality on screen in a way that sounds good in theory but is really way too cut and dried. When the movie arrives here, I’d love to see a panel debate on the subject. Could Blue Is the Warmest Color amount to a case of straight actresses doing, in essence, the same thing? I don’t personally believe so, but I do think it’s a worthy question. Griffith made The Birth of a Nation, it was accepted in the culture at large that white actors could appear on screen in blackface. Nevertheless, there’s no denying that this view sometimes has the ring of validity. And, of course, it also undercuts the very premise of what acting is. Taken to its logical extreme, it could produce a kind of artistic fascism in which no one was allowed to play anyone who was very different from themselves. This, of course, is a slippery slope of an argument, one that has the doctrinaire ring of identity politics. That argument has a very familiar ring, because it’s a version of the kind of argument that’s been made in recent years that actors shouldn’t pretend to be handicapped, or someone of a race they’re not, when there are plenty of good actors around who are handicapped, or are of that race, and could fill the role just as well or better. It’s almost too easy to attack Julie Maroh’s contention that the actresses who starred in the movie of her graphic (pun intended) novel should have been lesbians themselves. A film like Blue Is the Warmest Color returns us to the days when sex in the movies mattered because it showed us something about ourselves. Years of blahly sensational exploitation films, explicit cable-TV programming, and readily available Internet porn have dulled our ability to watch the staging of human sexuality with open eyes. Years ago, in the ’60s and ’70s, art films, usually from Europe or Asia, showcased human sexuality, and occasionally made headlines (and sold a lot of tickets) doing so, but it’s been a long time since a movie’s sexuality made it any sort of conversation piece. The scenes are explicit, but they are hardly “porn,” because they are also intensely dramatic we couldn’t fully understand this relationship - the level of obsession that drives it - without them. For the power of the scenes is that they’re really about what Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), the film’s heroine, and her lover, Emma (Léa Seydoux), are feeling as they let themselves go into an often aggressive erotic trance. Its sex scenes, particularly the first one, which lasts close to 15 minutes, are intensely intimate, and casually graphic, but to say that they “leave little to the imagination” would be weirdly reductive. In The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote a dissenting view, arguing that the film raised troubling issues about the depiction of female sexuality on screen she said that the film’s explicitness wasn’t so much artful as it was a case of pandering to the male gaze.īlue Is the Warmest Color is a serious, adventurous, and - yes - highly erotic coming-of-age drama. But there were also murmurs of discontent. There were instant cries that the movie would win the Palme d’Or, and it did. (That’s very 2013.) When Blue Is the Warmest Color played last month at the Cannes Film Festival, the three-hour French lesbian drama, with its lengthy and explicit scenes of bedroom intimacy, received a mostly rapturous response. This time, the clampdown comes from the forces of the liberal-left. This time, however, the controversy isn’t coming from the forces of conservatism - from a clampdown by the ratings board or from family newspapers that don’t want to advertise a film they deem indecent. There’s something almost reassuring about the fact that in 2013, a movie sex scene could still be controversial. ![]() ![]() ![]() But you can always check whether this file is DLL by looking for MZ letters at the beginning of it. Many application developers rename their DLL files to some other extensions which makes dealing with all the files more confusing. You can verify it by looking at it in Visual Studio or text editor. dragging a folder from Explorer window put it as the destination folder. Version 1.12: Added Drag & Drop support - dragging a file from Explorer window put it in the source filename field. Even though this file is named as SCR inside it is a DLL file. Added Multiple Files Mode, which allows you to extract the resources of every dll in a separated subfolder. An example of such use is Windows SCR file which is responsible for storing screensaver executable code. ![]() ![]() Often DLL files have different file extensions but still used as an extension for application. Thus you should be very careful where you download files from.
![]() ![]() John got some decent work before Star Wars came calling. ![]() I thought: this is what it’s like being in a real film.” Hustle and intrigue Ha ha! I was suddenly in the Ritz Carlton. ’ I was staying at the Coral Sands Motel. So, when Attack the Block became a “real movie”, he suddenly found himself kicked a few rungs up the ladder? He can do publicity for us.’ I thought: why do they want me? They probably want Nick Frost. I was moved from this motel into a nice hotel. I was just staying in a motel and all of a sudden I got word that Attack the Block had US distribution. “When Attack the Block got American distribution I was already in LA. ![]() “I didn’t really understand it,” he says. Still, the doors didn’t swing open immediately. “That was my first feature film,” he says. Those plans for university were put on hold. Following a group of south London geezers as they protect their area from invading aliens – good training for future Dr Who Jodie Whittaker – the film was not a smash at the box office, but, after developing a genuine cult following, it found its way towards the casting directors that mattered. In 2011, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block changed everything. “But nothing ever became a passion enough for me to invest all my time. As with so many budding actors, he felt swept in one direction by an uncontrollable force outside himself. But the interest in film and theatre stuck with him. Especially with my boys, one of who I am still great friends with today. School for me was an absolute joke,” he says. Earlier, he seems to have been distracted by his growing interest in acting and by the everyday pressures of being a teenager. After leaving school, he retook GCSEs in English and maths with a mind to attending university. I get the sense that he had an up-and-down time with education. School for me was an absolute joke. I was always laughing. I still live about 20 minutes away from where I grew up.” What do you mean ‘from Peckham to Hollywood’? I don’t like when they do that.” I get mind-boggled when people try to do a ‘rags to riches’ story. My dad taught me just because you’re in an environment where some people – not all people – are a problem that doesn’t mean you have to do the same things. He wouldn’t describe his upbringing as tough? It is true that Boyega’s sister was a contemporary and friend of Damilola Taylor, the young black boy murdered in the locale 17 years ago, but John is exhausted by the efforts to reduce his old manor to a clutch of sensationalist headlines. That part of London is endlessly diverse and resistant to easy caricature. John is calmly dismissive of the myth that he fought his way out of the ghetto to become a movie star. John Boyega both produces and stars in Pacific Rim: Uprising. I think that was a journalist trying to write his own version of Star Wars,” he says. There were reports that my dad wanted me to be a minister. He speaks warmly of his father, a Pentecostal minister who has long worked in and about Peckham, but denies the story, now common in many profiles, that dad wanted him to follow in his footsteps. John Boyega was born in 1992 to parents of Nigerian origin. It’s the people around you who change.” Calmly dismissive Where’s the corruption? Is it that shadow over his shoulder? John mimes the act of looking at his own image in a hand-held device. When the money came and the fame came I was looking at myself like this. The wiser movie stars always say that, when fame arrives, the problem is not that you change. Yet, once the ice is broken, he reverts straight to everyday south London vernacular. J J Abrams duly watched and cast him as Finn, the charismatic, deserting stormtrooper, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. His role in the rough-hewn London comedy Attack the Block at the start of the decade made him “one to watch”. On the evidence of these first few seconds, John Boyega hasn’t been much corrupted either. We gab a little about how Reynor doesn’t seem to have changed much since he moved from small Irish films to behemoths such as Transformers. I tentatively note – by way of a home-team ice-breaker – that he recently worked with Jack Reynor on Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit. He briefly glances out the window and then sits straight-backed in a generously sized chair. Or maybe I just think that because he’s surrounded by enough personnel to invade a medium-sized island.Īnyway, he’s arrived. Dressed entirely in black, he moves with the confidence of a veteran. Everyone’s got a list they need to consult. People with earpieces talk to other people with earpieces in adjacent corridors. The folk behind the sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s Robots v Giant Lizards epic have brought us to a grand hotel at the Whitehall end of Westminster. He both produces and stars in Pacific Rim: Uprising. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because this is the typical case in many real-world industrial problems, in this paper we focus on the approximation scheme to a given set of noisy data points. ![]() The approximation approach is particularly well suited when data are not exact but subjected to measurement errors. Such a distance is usually measure along the normal vector to the curve at that point. On the contrary, approximation does not require the fitting curve to pass through the data points, but just close to them, according to prescribed distance criteria. This approach is typically employed for sets of data points that are sufficiently accurate and smooth. In the former, a parametric curve is constrained to pass through all input data points. Depending on the nature of these data points, two different approaches can be employed: interpolation and approximation. The primary goal in these cases is to obtain a sequence of cross-sections of the object in order to construct the surface passing through them, a process called surface skinning.Īnother different approach consists of reconstructing the curve directly from a given set of data points, as it is typically done in reverse engineering for computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM), by using 3D laser scanning, tactile scanning, or other digitizing devices. This is a typical problem in many research and application areas such as medical science and biomedical engineering, in which a dense cloud of data points of the surface of a volumetric object (an internal organ, for instance) is acquired by means of noninvasive techniques such as computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound imaging. A classical approach in this field is to construct the curve as a cross-section of the surface of an object. The problem of recovering the shape of a curve/surface, also known as curve/surface reconstruction, has received much attention in the last few years. Furthermore, our scheme outperforms some popular previous approaches in terms of different fitting error criteria. Our experimental results show that the presented method performs very well, being able to fit the data points with a high degree of accuracy. The method has been applied to three illustrative real-world engineering examples from different fields. In our approach, this optimization problem is solved by applying the firefly algorithm, a powerful metaheuristic nature-inspired algorithm well suited for optimization. This requires to solve a difficult continuous, multimodal, and multivariate nonlinear least-squares optimization problem. The proposed method computes all parameters of the B-spline fitting curve of a given order. This paper introduces a new method to compute the approximating explicit B-spline curve to a given set of noisy data points. ![]() ![]() Each team has a single commander that promotes teamwork and active communication. Then, it has a multiplayer aspect where players enter as a squad and part of a bigger team. The campaign story happens in the 21st where Eastern powers are invading the USA. Marines, and the fictional Middle Eastern Coalition clash. It’s a series of missions where China, U.S. Unlike previous games, it has a modern setting and adds tactic and realistic shooter elements.įirst, it adds a hefty single-player mode. Battlefield 2 – 2005 Battlefield 2 is more “realistic” than previous Battlefield entries.īattlefield 2 debuted in 2005 for Windows PCs. You may also find the Battlefield Vietnam 10th Anniversary, a 2014 edition that celebrates the game’s 10th birthday. Yet, the studio added some concepts like vehicle passengers being able to fire from the sides. These maps include the Battle of Hue, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Operation Flaming Dart, and the Battle of Khe Sanh. The second entry features maps, weapons, and events based on the Vietnam War. Months later, EA re-released the title as Battlefield Vietnam: Redux with new maps, vehicles, and an official WWII mod. DICE’s Canadian subsidiary developed the game.
![]() ![]() Alternatively, start with the empty WDM driver template and add in code from the universal sysvad sample as needed for your audio driver. ![]() Load the universal audio sysvad sample to use as starting point for your universal audio driver. For more information, see Audio Devices Reference.įor step-by-step guidance, see Getting Started with Universal Windows Drivers. Updated DDI reference documentation: The DDI reference documentation is being updated to indicate which DDIs are supported by Universal Windows drivers. For more information, see Validating Universal Windows Drivers. This tool is part of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) for Windows 10, and runs automatically if you are using Visual Studio 2015. For more information about setting up the driver development environment, see Getting Started with Universal Windows Drivers.ĪPIValidator Tool: You can use the ApiValidator.exe tool to verify that the APIs that your driver calls are valid for a Universal Windows driver. Visual Studio 2015 Support: There is a driver setting to set “Target Platform” equal to “Universal”. These tools are available to develop Universal Windows driver support: This can reduces development time and cost for initial development and later code maintenance. IHVs can develop a Universal Windows driver that works on all devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, phones). ![]() Getting Started with Universal Windows drivers for Audio In addition to the Universal Windows drivers for audio, Windows continues to support previous audio driver technologies, such as WDM. This topics discusses the benefits of this approach as well as the differences between different platforms. In Windows 10 you can write a universal audio driver that will work across many types of hardware. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only, it was determined that kids were losing interest during the ballad, so the number was cut. In the moment, the two warriors from opposing forces recognize their love for one another. The song was conceived to be performed in a prison, where Pocahontas visits Captain John Smith after he has been captured and sentenced to death. In all of these conversations, particularly the one about the love song from Pocahontas, it's evident that Alan Menken always wants to make the decision that is right for the movie - which is selfless and brilliant and exactly why filmmakers want to work with him. Menken admits that "Part of Your World" was almost cut from The Little Mermaid after test audiences didn't care for it, and he talked about a "beautiful song" from Hercules called "The Shooting Star" that ended up on the cutting room floor because it was believed that the movie need something more masculine. The legend of Pocahontas has enjoyed wide popularity in American culture in a number of versions and in various genres since the early 17th century.Although little is known with any certainty about Pocahontas, stories, images, poems, songs, and dramas have been produced on all levels of culture celebrating the Indian Princess. We have to make sure the whole movie works.Īlan Menken was being interviewed on behalf of the home video release of the live-action Beauty and the Beast, though MTV News took him on a Memory's Lane stroll through work he did on previous Disney classics. Pocahontas opened at Londons Lyric Theatre in November 1963, featuring music, book and lyrics by Kermit Goell and starring Anita Gillette in the title role. But I was at the screening where everyone was afraid to say, 'Alan, the movie's dragging at that point.' I was the one who actually suggested taking it out because that's our job. At first we lost the love song from Pocahontas, 'If I Never Knew You,' and then in the rerelease of the movie we got it back in. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more information, see Merge Photo to Create HDR Panoramas. Press Command (MacOS) / CTRL (Windows) + Shift + H to connect.
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