Hello, Hello welcome in the new episode from Need For Speed:San Andreas, MTA
And today, my guest is
Bulson: The biggest cancer of Server
Skadryl: Ye
Skadryl: Hey
Skadryl: So, what are we going to do on today's episode?
Skadryl: Speak
Bulson: Well, I don't know ...
*Bulson: What we can.."*Skadryl: We are going to have fun with police
Skadryl: Can you get third heat? *Bulson:[something incomprehensible]*
Skadryl: Can you, or not?
Bulson: No Skadryl: No?, I can... (Badass AF)
Skadryl: So, Let's have fun? Bulson: Where are you?
Skadryl: Em, Police is here
Skadryl: Come here, We will chase with police
Bulson: Ye, I know but wait
Skadryl: Wait, F4 (press) because it's screaming
Skadryl: So, I took Patriot because it's very good aginst those SUVs
Bulson: OK, They...They
Skadryl: I wanted to show you, in this episode, New, today discovered by myself way for escape police
Skadryl: But I think it's probalby known by most people
Skadryl: But I have to tell you, It's nice
Skadryl: So first of all... Oh, police support
Skadryl: Well, There are four PCs only, on first heat
Skadryl: It's not too difficult
Skadryl: It's easy to escape
Skadryl: Well... Partiot RAMs good
Bulson: *Hard to recognize, what he said"*
Skadryl: I see now, Patriot has not enough power
Skadryl: And It's impossible to destroy PC by first try
Skadryl: I will destroy this
Skadryl: Done
Skadryl: But...But I forgot that..
Skadryl: Damn! no police here... on the radar
Skadryl: BIMBER!, someone called himself BIMBER. srlsy?! *Bimber means hooch in polish*
Skadryl: There is nothing like call us hooch...
Bulson: I would name myself "Brungosta"(?)
Skadryl: OK, Next try with police
Skadryl: It's too easy... too easy
Skadryl: I must get second heat...
Bulson: Is the fan audible? Skadryl: No it isn't, I turned it off for recording
Bulson: But from me? Skadryl: No, no
Bulson: OK, F*cking awesome
Skadryl: Your fan is f*cking awesome
Bulson: Hah, which, this big one? or small one?
Skadryl: Small one
Skadryl: It start up like a plane
Skadryl: I'm waiting for support, because without, this police is so weak
Bulson: Ye
*cut* Skadryl: Yes, that's what I'm talking about
Skadryl: 3
Skadryl: 2... Leave the trap!...
Skadryl: 1! 0! OK it is
Bulson: You said 0, and I hit PC
Skadryl: 7
Skadryl: This police annoying me...
Skadryl: Poor idea with this SUV... honestly
Bulson: He wanted to Ram me... He pushed me and got destroy
Skadryl: OK here would be some points
Skadryl: Well, some money...
Skadryl: OK ,I have 11K in 2 minutes (Nice)
Skadryl: Whaat? Trap is again available , it got reset
Skadryl: After 30 seconds *Bulson said that his too*
Skadryl: But why so fast?
Skadryl: Bugger me... After 30 seconds ?! I usually had it appeared again after 3 or 4 minutes
Skadryl: Leave me alone
Skadryl: So now there would be second heat
And I think i would get only third using Patriot
Third heat using Patriot? Its kind of sucide, In my opinion
Skadryl: But we will have it done
Skadryl: You can see there is a camera view of me, that you wanted
Skadryl: You can see my face now again
Bulson: I rather want to cover your camera area by duct tape
*laughing hard*
Skadryl: There is not support again
Skadryl: Main disadventage of Patriot is situation when you stuck somewhere, You're f*cked
Skadryl: No chance for escape
Skadryl: 12K only
Skadryl: Oh, second heat!, Good
Skadryl: Now I get more money
Bulson: *Hard to understand, something about Hermes, Sorry bro :) *
Skadryl: So It's my plan
Skadryl: Em, my tactic for police. Doing circles here in Doherty, near car salon
Skadryl: I can't destroy PC in first try... using SUV
Skadryl: Bad...
Skadryl: I don't know if SUVs was good
Skadryl: For chases
Skadryl: I can see road block there so we can destroy it a bit
For road blocks Patriot is good
But it's not good
I got freeze a bit
Skadryl: Whaaat?!?!?1
Skadryl: No, no no no no
*disapointed* No I will change a car
... change a car
Bulson: This weak? Skadryl: When you f*cking rollover, It's end
Bulson: You mean on the roof? *In polish this and last statement are having more sense together :)*
Skadryl: It's impossible I will choose a Futo again
Bulson: Futo Rules Skadryl: Ye Futo..., In Futo I got about 150K today
Or 120K in 30 minutes
So I will take Futo
Skadryl: This gamepad isn't good here
I made mistake, Patriot for chases... Not...
For road blocks, good, but when you roll on roof...
What's very possible by suspension
Bulson: You're f*cked . Skadryl: Yeah, exactly
I rather like use Futo
In Futo I have 2 heat, It would be 3 soon
So It would be good
OK
Trap for them
11K, not bad and chase time even didn't pass 1 minute
13K
Bulson: I have about 40K in less than 4 minutes
Skadryl: So you can see
Skadryl: You lost me, right
Skadryl: Oh, Support
*Both of them* OK
*Mixed voices*
Skadryl: Right, PC was on the roof and it reteleported by it's own
OK
Skadryl: I have support so I will wait now
And "regenerate" support... by escaping them
Skadryl: S*it
Bulson: You mean bugging? Skadryl: It's not bugging
*Bulson: Yeah, right (sarcastic)" Skadryl: But now...
Skadryl: Now it won't get succed because I'm recording...
Ok, Hide... OK
Look, now we have 1:30 again, see
And now we will do it same
We will wait until "triangle" wil appear again
I mean a trap
And If support will arrive, We will destroy it and there would be less PC again
It's my tactic, today discovered
It's nice
Ok, you can see trap is here now
We will wait for support now
Damn!
It would be hard on third heat with Futo
Because it's Futo
Not, for example Sultan
Made and tuned for 3 heat
You can see how Futo "behaves" when a lot of PC is around
And it's only 10 PCs now
I hope they won't destroy the trap
*Counting down 10 to 1
So we can destroy trap
Damn, what's going to do now. i think i will get FPS drops
*Counting from 12 to 15*
Thank you, Have a nice day
I fought I will get more money, unfortunately
Weak, because PCs had respawned in other place
Now we can destroy some PCs
I hope it won't be SUVs
Lately I do something like that with PCs
I drive in the around the Doherty (intresting activity AF)
It hasn't destroyed
PC hasn't destroyed
Why I have.... Now I noticed that I have "kek" written on Futo's plate
SUVs !!!!!
Yes, road block is here
I mean trap
Bulson: I have it appeared too
Skadryl: F*cking awesome (sarcasm), PC destroyed it for it's own
PC has destroyed that...
I have 41K now
45K i 6 minutes
Skadryl: Futo... Bulson: I have 70K
How much does it take you?
Bulson: in 13 minutes
2k for one police car
Ok, once again circle
Beautyful
PC, 2k
As you can see I don't have support because 5 PC is here
I think that support will arrive when there will be about 3 or... yes, 3 PCs
So leaving 4 PCs is worth
To don't have support yet
I think today I discovered how does police system works
System of PCs, system of Chases
I thought support appears randomly
I just had nice freeze
OK
There would be "bloodbath"
But please, please don't destroy this trap
No, leave it alone
Let's have it done
So how much I will get?
22K in 3 minutes, 24k I have
8 PCs
Is there a trap? I think so
No, no trap there, I think those are SUVs
No it weren't SUVs on building zone
Bulson: OK Skadryl: How much do you got?
Bulson: 1K RP Skadryl: How much $ you had?
Bulson": 12 minutes, 50K
Skadryl: So I can get 50K for this episode
I can't feel it , I don't have luck while recording
What hapenned? No, this police is freak
You will see on the episode what happened
Bulson: What Skadryl: You don't know now
It respawned "one meter" in front of me
If was in the air so I pass through
Bulson: I was eating chips
Skadryl: Ye? I have chips too
But I have to focus on the chase
So, you can see In Futo It's going better than in Patriot, weird
But it's NFS:SA
Leave me alone...
Oh block is there
Bulson: Three grades and I will max out Hermes, f*cking awesome
Skadryl: When you bought it?
Bulson: Yesterday? Skadryl: You see...
Skadryl: You idiot...
He destroyed trap
Bulson: What a dick
Skadryl: Only 2 PCs
Skadryl: Yeah, SUVs.. I passed thru them calmly
So, here I can present you example of GTA:SA psyhics
Skadryl: *reading from chat* Screaming in front of monitor on chase I will give you kebab, it works
Wil we check it?
Skadryl *One again about kebab*
Bulson: XD
Skadryl: Not "XD", it's true
So, 10 minutes, 40 seconds. 48k
I will destroy road block and then I will show you next spot
Oh, trap is there but those idiots will destroy it
Bulson: Yes, I think they will
Skadryl: If they will destroy it, I will start Rage Mode
Ok, I will do circle *Bulson: Destroy your mobile phone!*
I will make police come near the trap
And we can destroy it
I crocked, Idiot destroyed it
OK I get about 8k, I haven't reached
11 minutes, 56k, I will hide and escape now
I have support so everything is ok
This psychics is f*cking awesomeI
AI of police is weird
Let's hide
We have 1 minute
Until support will come
I guess I will evade them like that
I even don't have to came into it
... into salon
And here, 888RP
Bulson: For wat?
Skadryl: For 11 minutes of chase and 52K
OK, I hope you enjoyed this episode, there was with me...
Bulson: "Fat"
And we will se in the next episode from NFS:SA
Bye :)
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However you did used to special eyelash extensions.
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It's been a while since I tried to program various prototypes of platformers.
After the release of PacIn we started to decide what to do next.
We had a couple of smaller projects.
We thought that BLACKHOLE was going to be the thing that's going to get us out there.
LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES OF BLACKHOLE DEVELOPMENT
We didn't want to make just another small game in one month.
We wanted to make something bigger.
"Woaaaaaaah! What the hell!"
I'd like to apologize to all players who broke their keyboards or controllers
(or whatever the heck you play on, I have no clue) during BLACKHOLE.
I know Fiola a little bit and he kinda knows me and so...-
WAIT!
All of us had to get in the studio together which was difficult, logistic-wise.
Do not rush the next sentence, you've got time, feel free to pause.
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Auriel is overprocessed. We had to make it all sound good.
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We knew that we were falling behind.
When I jumped in as a developer, I found out there were lots of missing things.
I underestimated it at the beginning, I didn't dedicate 100% of my time to it.
The game possibly can't come out that soon!
...adding different tiles in the levels that constantly repeat is a very tedious process.
It has to be done well.
For someone it's a huge amount of work, for others it's fun.
TWO BIG DOCUMENTS
The most important thing during the work on such a big project is obviously to like the project.
"...it's this nice artbook-"
"I gotta tell you, it looks gorgeous!"
When we started, it wouldn't even occur to me that some people were going to draw fanart of my work.
"We can leave him here."
"The hole's pissed me off."
"WOAH! HOLY SHIT!"
"The best Czech *hyphen* Slovak federative game of the year."
BLACKHOLE truly changed our lives. The console release is going to change them in some way too.
Obviously for the better, I hope!
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Hi, I'm Cindy Bennett, and I am a blind to PhD student at the
University of Washington in the department of human centered design and
engineering. Hi, I'm Gary Wunder, and I'm a blind computer scientist. Hi my name is
Mark Colasurdo, and I'm a blind PhD student in biomedical engineering. Hi, I'm Jamie, and
I'm studying to be a physicist, and I'm blind. Hi, I'm Dr. Cary Supalo, and I'm a blind chemist.
I became inspired to become a STEM professional after I finished my undergraduate degree
in psychology. I began working in a computer science department at the
University of Washington on some accessibility research projects, and I
realized that I could combine my social science background with a passion for
technology to be able to join a lucrative and interesting workforce.
I've always been fascinated with electronics, the magic of being able to communicate
with a wire, or even without a wire when you come down to radio, and the idea
that you could actually make a machine that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide,
could do it faster than human beings, and that I could learn to program it was a
really cool idea to me. I think I always have had a natural curiosity for
understanding how things work, whether it's something in nature or something
more physical like chemistry or machines, but I've always had a curiosity for that,
so I pursued it throughout my education. And then coming into STEM fields, I find
that it's an excellent way to give back to society, so I really enjoy the aspect
of being able to make positive change through science, and so that's what's
kept me into STEM. I've always been really curious about the world. In a way
I think I've always been a scientist. When I was little I would spend a lot of
time asking questions about why and how things work, and sometimes even designing
my own experiments to understand things better.
So I always knew I wanted to be a scientist, I just didn't really know how
a blind person could do it. So when people would ask what I wanted to be
when I grew up, I would cycle through things that I thought were a little bit
more likely for me to achieve like teacher, or writer, or social worker, or
something, but I was never happy with these ideas. I really just wanted to do
science. When I was an undergraduate student at Purdue University, I didn't
know what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I was inspired by the chemistry
courses I was enrolled in as a freshman to work really hard to understand this
at the time was very complicated material, and as I worked hard at things
I started experiencing more and more success with the material, and it
started a snowball effect, started rolling a little bit more, and I got into
it more quickly and became bigger, and faster and before I knew when I was a
chemistry guru. And understanding the world the way it is and why things are
the way they are really, really has motivated me since I was a child, and the
chemistry profession was a good way to pursue that interest. I first realized
that I could do STEM as a blind person after my undergraduate degree in
psychology. I began working in a computer science department at the University of
Washington, and the students in the lab believed in me. There were never any
discussions about what I could or could not do as a blind person, and whenever we
encountered inaccessible technologies, the research team was very supportive of
finding ways of communicating that worked for everyone, and encouraging me
to learn how to program and to become a better researcher. At this time I also
started connecting with other blind STEM professionals, and learning from them
absolutely inspired me to pursue STEM. Well I always wanted to go into the
sciences, but the further I got along in school the more I was told that STEM
really wasn't a possibility for me, that I should concentrate on something in the
social sciences, something that would rely less on
direct observation, that would rely less on using my hands, that would be more
"read about it, write about it." And one day I was telling a professor that I really
liked philosophy and political science but I wished I could find a way to go
into the field of electronics, and he said, "I don't know why you're choosing
your second choice and your third choice before you've given yourself a chance
for your first choice. I don't know whether you can make it or not, but it
seems to me that anybody who respects themselves would at least try their
first choice. And thank God you have second and third ones to fall back on. So I
don't know if this will work, but let's try it." So I lost my vision when I was 16,
and I attended training at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, and at that time
when I had lost my vision I had kind of lost hope of pursuing my career in STEM,
but I think with my experiences at LCB and having that initial empowerment, I
saw that I could continue to do what I wanted to do, and it empowered and enabled me
to continue this career option, going on to college and then now in my graduate studies.
I struggled a lot with mathematics in college. I would even have
some professors at various institutions turn me away and say, "You can't do math
if you're blind," and I started to believe them, until I went to a new school in
Colorado and decided to start off with just a math class. It was college algebra,
and I didn't want my teacher to have any assumptions about me. So when I walked
into class on the first day, and he was asking all the students, "How do you feel
about math? how do you do at math?" I lied through my teeth, and I told him that I'm
excellent at math. I've always been head of my class, and it's my favorite subject
ever. And then I spent the rest of the semester trying to not get caught in my
lie. By the end of the semester, I had an A in the class,
and I was kind of blown away by this. I was finding that I really enjoyed the
subject. I was talking to a friend of mine one night, and I was telling him
about it, and I telling him about how all I really want
to do is understand how the universe works, and he looked at me and he said,
"Well why don't you major in physics?" And I looked at him like he was crazy, but he
said he wasn't joking. This is a sighted person who's well educated, who's
brilliant in math and science, telling me that I could be a physicist.
And I thought, "Well I made it through college algebra, and I really like math,
and I really like science. What do I have to lose? I'm gonna give it a try."
I first took an interest in STEM-type content back when I was in fourth grade, and
there I was discovering that I was really good at math, and arithmetic
calculations, and doing things in my head was a lot of fun to me. And as I progressed
through middle school, I started learning more about the life sciences and
physical sciences, and I wanted to understand more about how math and
science related to one another, and when I got to high school that was my first
initial opportunity to really pursue that in multiple classes.
And then of course leap frogging from high school into college, there are the
gateway courses of calculus, and chemistry, and physics that are designed
to be very difficult for students because they want to sort of weed out
the pretenders, if you will. I wasn't sure if I could do it initially until I met a
blind chemistry professor, Dr. David Wohlers at Truman State University in
Kirksville, Missouri. He came to Purdue where I was an undergraduate student, gave
a research talk, and they had arranged it so that I could have dinner with him and
spend extra time with him before and after the presentation and on his visit,
and he inspired me, because I realized having a tangible person that I
could hear, and talk to, and learn from that if I worked hard at this I could
figure out how to do it, and I could do it myself. My greatest challenge has been
learning to program in a classroom environment. So part of the reason for
this challenge is that I'm a graduate student working with technical people,
and so I'm trying to catch up, but to do that I've signed up for a couple of
programming classes, and the greatest challenge is when the technology tools
that the rest of the class is using are not accessible. When I have to use
alternative development environments from the other students, the teacher
isn't ready to support me, and so I have to do extra work to learn how to use
accessible tools. And the other big challenge is when professors don't say
out loud what they're writing on the board or typing on their computer. A lot of
computer science professors code during class, and it's a really interactive way
to help students to understand the content, as well as making errors and
working through debugging code, but often professors don't announce, especially
non-textual characters, and it's really difficult, even if I have the notes in
front of me, trying to map what they're saying to what part of the notes they're
referring to. So that's probably the biggest challenge is when there's not
enough verbal information in the classroom.
Well, my greatest challenge in school was getting materials in a form that I could
read, and getting professors to articulate what it was they were talking
about. You know, if we were dealing with something as simple as Ohm's law, and you
were trying to figure out the current flowing through a circuit, you could say
voltage over resistance equals current, but that isn't the way they said it they
said, "If you take this, and you divide it by this, you come up with this." And you
have to do a lot of asking about okay what is the "this" in all of that. That was the
problem in school. The interesting problem was in work the assumption was
that if I got through school I could probably do the work, and my first boss
said that he almost didn't hire me because he thought that it would require
too much effort to get me to the workplace, home
again, to find me lunch, and to take me to the bathroom, and he said, "You know, we
just didn't have the kind of staff to do that sort of thing." And I said, "So you
weren't worried about whether I could do the work or not?" And he said, "No. I figured
if they sent you here you could already program. I just figured you'd
take a lot of maintenance. And when you came here on your own, and you didn't ask
me for anything, I was convinced that if you worked out with the rest of the
staff, you were a hire."
The most difficult aspect of what I do is probably lab
bench science. So working at the bench, working with different tools, performing
cell culture, which requires very precise hand-eye coordination, and working with a
variety of tools in a very rapid manner, using microscopy, and being able to
analyze the images for different aspects of what you might be looking for, and so
work as an undergrad reading books and doing tests was not as difficult as
long as you can get the accommodations that you need, but the most difficult
part of science so far has been actually doing it in the laboratory. for me one of
For me one of the biggest challenges that I encountered both in undergraduate school
and in graduate school was misconceptions by faculty in my
department, in the chemistry department, as to the capabilities of a blind person,
how they would actually do innovative research, and the first happened when I
was a senior at Purdue and I approached the professor that inspired me to want
to go on to graduate school and pursue chemistry as a profession. And I asked
him after having taken two of his -- actually three of his courses -- and doing
quite well in them, if he would support me writing me a recommendation letter to
graduate school, and he said he would not because he didn't know how I would
perform the job as competitively as a sighted student would be able to. And so
for me that was a real downer but through
a semester-long effort and educating of him and other faculty as to the
capabilities and the historical perspective of blind people in STEM-type
professions in the past, I persuaded him to give me that recommendation letter in
the end for graduate school. I was very inspired by that. And then in graduate
school, you have to choose a research adviser, and I interviewed faculty member
number one, two, three, and four. I was expected to interview a minimum of four,
and faculty member number three, I met with him, and we discussed his work and
how exciting it was, and I explained to him how I as a blind person was going
to do my work, working with Braille, and tactile graphics, and undergraduate
students helping me to do the work at the bench-top,
and I would design all my experiments based on literature through consultation
with him as the faculty member, and it all sounded fine, and when I got down to
the end of it I said, "Would you be open to the idea of me joining your research
group?" He said no. And I asked him for clarification as to why, and he said, "I
view you as a financial liability, and why should I spend my limited grant
research dollars on you when I could spend them on someone else that would be
more productive?" But of course I didn't know what really to say to that, and so
it sort of set me back on my heels if you were, and I left that meeting and
went to meeting number four, and met with the faculty member that ended up turning
out to be my research adviser. And I asked him after explaining how I was going to do
all my work and working with undergraduate students if he had any
concerns, and he said no. He said, "Cary, you have been problem solving to
overcome your physical challenges for in essence your entire life. That is the
essence of what a scientist does, and I view that as an asset to your research."
No one ever comes up to me and says, "You can't do this because you're blind."
People have become a little bit more polite than that, but in the nuances of
the ways that people interact with me I can gauge
that there might be some assumptions about what I can do. So one thing I make
an effort to do are really simple, even non work-related tasks, like getting
people coffee. When I was a TA in the fall, my professor would often set up the
classroom and do menial tasks that were typical of the TA, such as turning on the
projector, passing out supplies, and so I, when I noticed that was happening, I made
an effort to show up to class early and to start performing those tasks before
the professor could get there and then when he arrived he could see, oh Cindy
has already done this. This isn't a big deal. And other other ways I circumvent
that is when I suspect that there might be some assumptions, a lot of it is
around navigating technologies, I try to have open communication with my
collaborators and explain when things really are not accessible and always
offering a way that I can do it a different way or to collaboratively
brainstorm if I don't have a solution ready at hand. I never had anyone assume
that I couldn't do my work because I was blind. They worried about whether or not
I could get there, and whether I could handle the mobility required to be a
colleague, but I don't think I ever had anyone say, "I'm not going to give you
this assignment because." Now there were times when the technology that was
available and its relative inaccessibility made certain assignments
pretty hard, but I tried to make that a situation that I dealt with rather than
one that other people had to deal with. I would assume that they assumed that you
can not do most of it or any of it, but I think that the parts that are
particularly difficult or most obvious to people would be things like
microscopy, that are entirely visual, or things that require very precise
working, such as with
working with cell culture for example, that requires very precise eye coordination.
This has become less and less of an issue the longer I've been in
the field, but in the beginning a lot of people assumed that I wouldn't be able
to set up or use delicate or dangerous equipment to do experiments. Some
examples of this would be soldering irons, electrical components, lasers, all
kinds of things, even things as simple as a swinging pendulum, but in reality I can
do all of this. I just need to do it a little bit differently, and a lot of my
colleagues just needed to see that a few times before they believed it.
So sometimes my colleagues assume that I can't work in the effective time table
as nonvisually impaired counterparts because it takes blind people longer to
do things, and in some cases that can be true, and we as blind professionals just
need to be willing to make the time commitment to do that work, for example
grading handwritten work. It takes a long time to go over one student's work, and
over and over again until you are satisfied with the answers that you
received, and providing the feedback that you want to give, dictating the feedback
to a sighted person to then hand scribe it on the page in red ink, and making
sure that it's written the way you want it because you don't want to create any
offense and things of that sort. But then that's time that I'm willing to give as
a commitment to my profession and to my students' learning and being successful.
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Strefa 30 km/h w centrum Poznania / 30 km/h zone in center of Poznan - Duration: 12:06.
Poznan calm down, where do you rush?
It turned out that the speed of 50 km/h is too much
and on some streets in center of Poznan,
the speed is limited to 30 km/h.
In this episode we will talk about traffic calming.
Lets' watch!
Restricted speed zones are supposed to be drug for three diseases spreading in Downtowns of Polish cities.
Often central area is treated by drivers as a great transit route,
because it is the shortest.
So what that we generate congestion, noise and pollution in this area?
Zone is thus to discourage use of these roads
and lead congestion out on alternative main routes surrounding the Center.
Second important issue is improving safety in these areas.
Why speed is limited to these 30 km/h?
It turns out that after accident with car and pedestrian at this speed,
probability of pedestrian death is more than 8-times lower
than in case of 50 km/h speed,
which is standard speed for built-up areas.
For pedestrians this is no longer safe speed -
in more than eighty percent of cases –
accident at this speed may end with death.
Similar dependencies also apply to other road users:
cyclists or people on scooters or motorcycles,
although speed differences between vehicles can be even greater
– to disadvantage of more susceptible on injuries drivers of two-wheelers.
And thirdly, comfort of living in these areas.
In order for us to enjoy the city center,
we would like it to be relatively quiet,
with no pollution
and plenty of space
- generally nice.
Walking zones in the heart of many cities we already have.
It is harder to get into those zones from rest of city,
where pedestrians are pushed to the edge.
We are at the moment
when we start talking about intermediate zones
- with streets adapted to pedestrian or cyclist perception,
but with allowed car traffic,
although at reduced speed.
We already have concrete implementations of this type of zones in Poland,
we will see the realization in Poznan.
"Tempo 30" zone is determined by vertical and horizontal signs on entry and exit from area.
In Poznań so far, area cover selected streets in western part of city center,
centered around Wolności and Ratajczaka Squares.
According to plans, Zone will be further expanded,
covering streets around Old Market Square
and southern part of city center.
Designing a zone is just beginning,
the heart of the matter lies in means to physically and mentally exert an influence on drivers
to remain at low speeds.
In zone you will see narrowed lanes or their smaller number relative to previous state.
For example, St. Martin's street
on some fragment was narrowed to one lane
and inclined parking,
which occupied space of sidewalks,
was turned into parallel.
The edges of the narrow lanes can be delimited by delimiters.
Part of the recovered space is used to designate parking spaces
or to set up bicycles stands.
Instead of traffic junction with preference direction,
priority to the right intersections were implemented,
which is supposed to force speed limit.
Similarly, in case of elevated pedestrian crossings,
speed is limited with fear of suspension loss,
but also improvement visibility of crossing.
Pedestrian crossings on wide roadways
can also be facilitated by providing intermediate asylums.
One of the most difficult issues in such zones
is parking policy.
Minimum number of places for vehicles in such areas must always exist
- not all destinations are accomplished on foot or on bikes.
Improving street lanes geometry and designating bike lanes
often means, however, that there is a limit on number of parking spaces available for cars.
If there are such financial opportunities,
we build underground parking spaces.
Cities should, however, be able to freely charge parking fees according to their own needs,
which is currently regulated by law.
This is a de facto basic tool for managing the available number of parking spaces in paid parking zone.
In area of limited speed, traffic lights are also switched off.
It is recognized that at such a speed, the traffic will well and safely
adjust on its own.
After observing some of these intersections in the city I have mixed feelings,
some of them had potential collision situations
and at peak hours,
at high traffic vehicles remained on center of intersections,
blocking traffic to other directions.
Purpose of speed limit actually was accomplished in this way.
However, it must be acknowledged
that traffic of pedestrians, cyclists and tramways
- took place without long lasting stops under the lights.
In such a zone we can also make it easier for passengers traveling by public transport -
in a single tram will be much more passengers than in one car.
One of the solutions are Viennese stops,
where we raise the level of roadway in place where passengers get off at it -
at level near the entrance to bus or tram.
On the other hand, stop again forces speed limit
and stopping of car in front of lifted surface
when tram stops,
until it leaves the stop.
Cyclists are feeling a special change inside Poznan zone 30.
There are special lanes on roadways, only for bicyclists.
Due to counterlanes, bicycle traffic was also allowed in many unidirectional streets "upstream".
These measures are designed to provide most possible driving directions,
streamlining and accelerating movement in city center on bike.
So far, these solutions have not been used by too many bikers,
but looking at Warsaw -
as bike network grows - bike traffic also grow,
so increasing bicycle traffic seems to be a matter of time.
Greater bicycle accessibility is also contributing to increase of public bicycle system.
Every year number of stations and bikes is growing
and currently system in Poznań has 88 stations
and 963 bicycles.
Zone is already a part of tourist area of Poznan
and there is also a place for tourists to get off the coaches.
For these vehicles, special parking spaces have been designated for up to 15 minutes,
which allows for a "landing"
but while waiting for tourists return,
coach must park outside the area.
The primary purpose of setting speed limits is to improve traffic safety.
Smaller differences in speed between vehicles and other participants
mean less risk of collision or accident
and its possible consequences.
In city centers we have been concentrating our development for centuries, so as to use as much valuable space as possible,
but something went wrong along the way.
Cars showed up, our private means of transport
and we began to limit our space to live in cities.
There are more and more vehicles and first problems with smooth traffic appeared,
so roads were widened to the limit.
City streets became extremely unattractive:
most of their cross-sections were occupied by roadways and parking spaces,
pedestrians were pushed onto narrow pavements
and cyclists had to cope in one or the other space
– feeling unwelcome on both.
Treating inner city roads as a transit routes
we stop in congestion,
travel for a longer time,
air we breathe is polluted.
Now we face the question of whether cities and especially their centers,
should be for people or remain dominated by cars?
Is center to be space in which we live, work, relax and have fun?
Reducing speed often raises objections to road users,
but is it right in case of central areas?
Please let us know what you think in the comments.
Meanwhile, thanks for the great attention and see you next time!
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Initial D Arcade Stage Version 3 - Part #4 - Toru Suetsugu (ENG SUB) - Duration: 4:34.
It's not bad to drive in another pass every once in a while Atsuro.
That's right.
There is a sense of tension which can't be experienced on a home course..
Hmm? That Eight-Six..
You also came to Usui from somewhere else.
I'm a bit bored so why don't you and I have a battle?
I am Toru Suetsugu.
Seven Star Leaf is my team.
How is it? Do you accept the offer stranger?
I was beaten..
I had trouble keeping up with you..
Or should I have used different tires to win..
These are cheap tires so the grip is bad..
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How Hard Does Doddy Shred? Blake Puts Him To The Test - Duration: 4:41.
- Right, you've all been asking about Doddy riding.
You guys want to see it.
And you've been loads of comments. Loads and loads.
So today's the day, and we're going to go ride.
So Doddy, lead the way, I'm going to follow you.
- Let's hit it.
(lively music)
(wheels rolling on dirt)
WOAH!
(Blake laughs loudly)
(Doddy laughs)
- [Blake] Are you all right?
- [Doddy] I don't know where my glove's gone.
- Bet it went down there.
- Oh, there it is.
Dear.
- Let's do that again, but don't go down there.
- I won't go down there that time.
(lively music) (wheels rolling on dirt)
(laughs)
- Well, that answers your question.
He can definitely shred the trail.
But I've got a few questions for you.
Right, where's your favourite place to ride?
- Do you know what?
Lucky enough over the years I've ridden in so many
amazing different countries.
Canada, Mexico, France Spain, all sorts.
But do you know what, home trails.
- [Interviewer] Local trails.
- You know my local trails aren't the best,
but right out my door, lovely single track,
and sometimes that's all I need.
- [Interviewer] What sort of riding do you love to do?
- Do you know, just what we've been doing, single track
with the trees whistling past. - Nice.
- It doesn't even to be the craziest section of trail,
just that sensation.
Nothing beats it, I swear.
- Bucket list.
Do you have a bucket list trail that you want to do,
or mountain you want to shred down, or ...
- Do you know, I'm also lucky, I've kind of
ticked off what was always my bucket list,
and that was a trail called the Whole Enchilada
in Moab, and that's kind of got a bit of everything.
It starts up at high Alpine, and drops all the way down
to the canyon floor.
And I think it's like 27 miles long.
- Yeah?
- Like, of pretty much all downhill, yeah?
- Wow. - And it's got everything.
You've got roots, or schralpy turns at the top,
you've got river crossings, it's just ...
The famous slick rock, the canyon edge stuff,
it's just incredible.
- That's going on my list.
- Let's go tomorrow.
- That's going on my list.
- It's pretty brutal, as well.
- Right, I've got one more question.
You're sat down on your bike,
like chilling, how tall are you?
'Cause you're taller than me already.
- D'you know what, six three, six four,
somewhere around there.
A bit rangey.
- You should be a basketball player.
Well, enough of that.
Let's carry on shredding, because I've got a few more,
I've got some challenges for you.
(lively music) (wheels rolling on dirt)
(laughs)
(laughs)
Whoa.
Right. I want to see you get some air time.
Because I'm all about that.
Challenge number one. - Okay.
- Hit that jump right there.
- Okay.
- You got it.
- Yeah, I think so.
(Interviewer claps hands)
- [Interviewer] He's dropping.
(wheels rolling on dirt)
- [Doddy] (shouts enthusiastically)
(wheels rolling on dirt)
- [Interviewer] (laughs)
(wheels rolling on dirt)
(laughs)
Wow, it's been so long.
(slaps a high five)
Viewers have asked, I wanted to ride with you,
and it's been so good.
It's been a long time coming, and we've produced it
just for you guys.
He can shred. He can take some air.
And he can ride some trails. What more do you need?
- Yeah, so don't forget, click the globe in the middle here,
subscribe, if you want to find out the six things
you never knew about your bike, click down here.
- Yeah, and if you want to get a little more free-riding
when you're riding out there on the trail,
click just down here.
If you loved this video,
definitely give it a thumbs up Like.
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Megan does not understand why you're not in Paris yet darling ! - Duration: 1:31.
Hi there ! I'm Megan ne comprend pas,
and everywhere I go I'm always beautiful.
Your very first memory of French cuisine ?
My first memory of French cuisine,
I think it might be my very first meal, because in the end, in Belgium we cook
a lot of French recipes, as we are neighbour.
So I grew up, inspired by French cuisine, and
the bound between Belgian and French cooking is so thin.
What do you think of France, its products and cooking ?
I am amazed by the diversity of products.
There is an incredible number of French products,
and you can buy things you wouldn't think it can be French.
Naturally, it boosts my creativity, I think of all the mix I can make.
French products are a new challenge to me.
Your advice for the first time in Paris ?
You have to come to Paris, just to wander its already amazing.
And try this wine bar in which we ate, with the french products tapas,
it was so unique the way they renewed the concept of tapas.
The way you see France Bon Appétit in 3 words ?
Gourmet
Pleasure
And the third one :
Chic !
Like our Facebook page to discover the full parisian Food Tour
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Pegasus by Two Steps From Hell (Piano) - Duration: 5:11.
Hey audience!
I reckon Pegasus is just like that other track from Vanquish, Stallion - but with wings.
So I hope you enjoyed it.
I really depend on patron support to be able to put out a video like this every week so
if you'd like to help me out, head on over to my Patreon where you can get some cool
stuff like sheet music and mp3s and you can vote on my next video.
So if you enjoyed this one, hit the LIKE button and leave a comment below and tell me what
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I upload new videos on Fridays so be sure to SUBSCRIBE and I'll see you in the next one.
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Why PRP Can Improve Neck Skin but Cannot Lift, and Options for Neck Rejuvenation - Duration: 7:42.
Thank you for your question.
You submitted a photo of your neck and you state that you're 36-years-old and you have
an area of what appears to be loose skin and you're asking if PRP will be helpful to
treat this area.
Well, I can certainly share with you the way I counsel patients who come in with very similar
situations as yours.
A little bit of background, I'm a Board-certified cosmetic surgeon and Fellowship-trained oculofacial
plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
I have been in practice in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years.
And helping people with their neck in terms of rejuvenation through a multitude of options
is something that we do in our practice every day.
And especially significant is our use of PRP in our practice.
So, I'll help you understand what PRP can do and cannot do.
So to begin with, the choice of any type of intervention is based on a proper diagnosis.
And also understanding of course the limits of the tools you want to apply.
So we'll start first by getting a better understanding of what PRP is.
PRP stands for platelet-rich plasma.
Platelet-rich plasma is essentially a concentration from your own blood of the wound healing and
growth factors appropriate to stimulate collagen, to generate blood supply and have a lot of
different things that can do to help tissue essentially improve.
So when we use PRP in our practice, we use it for acne scars, we use it for wrinkles,
we use it for skin discolorations, under eye dark circles, we use in conjunction with Acellular
matrix for hair loss.
Now a lot of times, people feel or interpret PRP as being able to fill as well as to lift.
And in either situation, it's really about a perception.
Let's start with the filling part.
When you are trying to improve an area's appearance of volume, PRP can stimulate the
fat under the skin to blossom and increase in volume and that can look like a filler
but it's not going to be the same as an injectable filler.
As far as lifting is concerned, in an area, let's say over the cheekbone or in an area
where there is a layer of fat that can help be a cushion and may create some volume subtlety,
then it can lift.
Now in your situation, the diagnosis is probably not appropriate to use PRP as a standalone.
PRP can help the neck skin texture, it can help the neck skin quality.
But without a benefit of a physical examination, what it appears is you have a platysmal band
which is a muscle called the platysma and that band represents an attachment to the
skin.
And a lot of times, we can interpret this as a splitting of the muscle.
Sometimes it's really just about a localized or an area of atrophy which makes the muscle
more prominent.
And you are essentially dealing with a muscle that there are a variety of options which
can be used to address that muscle, everything from minimally invasive such the use of Botox®
to relax the muscle as well as moderately invasive or something like a suture suspension
procedure and more aggressive such as platysmaplasty and neck lifting surgery.
So, I think that is more appropriate based on the diagnosis.
Of course, an evaluation is not limited to the narrow area of the photograph of your
neck but a proper evaluation.
When I see my patients in my practice, I take pictures and I have them lift the different
areas and I show them and review their photos on the screen about what we can possibly do
based on what the issue is and then they decide with what they're comfortable with.
Sometimes, it's a stepwise approach.
Sometimes we do a little Botox® first, see how things look.
Then if that isn't as beneficial, we look at other options.
We look whether or not there's truly redundant skin or is there volume loss in the face.
And in that case, we can actually do something called structural volumizing to literally
expand the volume in the face, to help lift the neck but that's a different strategy
and it depends on your facial anatomy which we can't appreciate with the photo you submitted.
So I think that you will find that you will get a lot of opinions about what's best
for your neck.
And I think it's important that you get comfortable with the doctor that can guide
you in a way that hopefully you'll feel comfort with.
There are a lot of options and there are a lot of technologies that are being promoted.
And there's certainly no shortage of people that are ready to offer their best solution.
And I think certainly that majority of the time it's well-meaning but a lot of times,
it might miss the mark unless there's good communication between you and the doctor.
So meet with qualified, experienced cosmetic surgeons.
I think that would be the ideal specialist, a cosmetic surgeon, someone who is able to
do everything from minimally invasive to more advanced cosmetic surgery to give you an overview
based on experience as to what would be best for a 36-year-old woman who has this issue.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question.
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Scars 🎙️ a Sci-Fi Short Story Audiobook 🎙️ by Esther Davis - Duration: 8:52.
Tall Tale TV.
SciFI and Fantasy Short Story Audiobooks.
Scars by Esther Davis
Every scar tells a story.
Dark webbing still marks my shoulder from the day that bullets separated my squad from
our company.
The bleeding would've killed me if my comrades hadn't bandaged it.
But isolated from medical equipment, we couldn't stop the scarring.
After days of wandering the Amazon I tripped, leaving a white slice across my stomach.
A dumb wound.
Not from a heroic battle with enemy soldiers or fleeing some hungry beast.
I just got tired, so I fell.
Then came the jagged blossom encasing my thigh.
Forever a vengeful red, as if still burning after all these years.
Some stories I'd rather forget.
* * * I turned to the avatars for my escape.
Avatars have no scars to pinch at every arm stretch.
Pistons and cogs don't grind with arthritis.
I scaled the Grand Canyon with the arms of a robotic chimp.
The wonders of coral reefs opened to my aquatic avatar's photo-sensors.
I've galloped across green fields, grandchild mounted on my saddle.
The world in a mechanical body never harbored memories of war.
Until now.
Explosions rack my frame.
Dust fogs my avatar's view.
I dig my claws into the soil and let my inertia swing my feline body onto its new course.
Across the ocean, cables suspend my true body—my scarred body—above the warehouse floor.
I'm sure the camouflaged personnel still swarm below, checking my vital signs, the
avatar's functionality, the video and data streaming from the battlefield.
Command center may share my eyes, but they can't taste the sandy air.
They can't feel the satisfying way my claws pierce the earth or how my padded feet launch
me onward.
The rolling tank doesn't shake the ground beneath them.
They don't hear the fleeing birds' squawks with such clarity, transferred straight from
the avatar's receptors to my brain.
They wanted their war hero back.
We don't need your body, they said.
Your mind, your skill with the avatars, that's all.
I refused.
They dragged me back to the battlefield anyway.
* * * We found the enemy camp on day six.
The hostages, the data, the battle plans—everything we needed to end the war—tucked away in
seven pale tents huddled beneath the trees.
If we'd come in numbers, a guard would have heard us.
But a broken, lost battalion in the Amazon becomes invisible.
I ordered the men to divide and surround the camp.
Hidden in the greenery, they fired.
The enemy panicked, thinking themselves surrounded.
People ran in every direction, stumbling over one other, colliding, spilling documents and
hard drives in the dirt, stooping to hurriedly gather their mess.
I slipped in among the chaos.
I expected more guards in the hostage tent.
But only a skinny man crouched, trembling, between me and the prisoners bound in the
dirt.
When I flipped open the tent door he shouted and raised his weapon.
I reacted instinctively.
My rifle hoisted.
The trigger pulled.
The guard fell.
Just like I'd trained.
I didn't notice my burning thigh until I fell, my back slapping the ground.
I ripped the box from my flesh.
I didn't recognize it.
Some experimental technology, I guess.
The army took the barbed box later, when I delivered our rescued hostages and they gave
me my medal.
They never told me details.
"Lethal," was all they said.
"Lucky you disengaged it."
* * * Power courses through my circuitry.
My hind legs punch the ground and I bound forward.
A seventy-miles-per-hour limit hid me before.
But I knew I'd lost my stealth at the first explosion.
Military don't fire missiles at stray cheetahs.
No more use pretending.
I strain my machinery, pushing full thrust into every bound.
One hundred.
Two hundred.
Three hundred.
Faster.
Faster.
Savannah grass snaps across my flank.
My weighted tail whips behind, letting me steer and balance.
I reel back toward the camp, sending up my own dust cloud.
The muddy tanks grind their noses towards me.
One fires, hitting fifty yards behind.
I fly through the savannah, weaving to avoid missiles and grenades.
Soldiers flee, though their commander's foreign shouts order them to fight.
Mentally, I beg them to keep fleeing.
Run, surrender, anything.
Don't make me fight you.
Don't let them get you.
* * * The general met me at a steakhouse.
He probably figured I'd find the country music and meat more welcoming than his stuffy
office.
Personally, I'd rather have a cold burrito than the too-rare steak the waiter brought
me.
General Lee gave me the guilt trip, the same one from his email.
The same one from his phone call.
"I know you're retired, but we need you.
Your country needs you."
"No."
"Why?"
I rolled up my pant leg, wincing as it tugged at my scarred tissue.
The scar's red burned bright against my pale skin.
"This."
He smiled sympathetically, like I was some naive child.
"But we've discussed this.
You'll just be an avatar.
Nothing can hurt you."
He rested his elbow on either side of his empty plate and leaned toward me.
"No more scars.
I promise."
Not all scars are physical.
* * * I reach the first tank.
I leap.
My avatar torpedoes through the metal and tears out the other side.
I slice through the next tank just as easily, like stabbing melted ice cream.
I hear the drones now, their buzzing and distant pops.
I try blocking out the screams.
I turn away from the blood.
I focus on the job I can stomach—killing lifeless metal.
* * * The prisoners unbound, the enemy camp secured,
I knelt alone in the once-hostage tent.
The young man still lay there, or his lifeless body at least.
I didn't regret my actions.
I still don't.
I saved lives.
My heart still felt hollow.
We dug the graves earlier that day.
We filled them with enemy soldiers and two of our men.
I told them to leave this boy.
I would search his pockets then fill the final grave myself.
I laid his pockets' contents in the dirt.
Bullets and bandages.
Some stray coins.
And a photo of a girl, maybe five- or six-years-old, with the young man's black hair and round
nose.
Large, cramped lettering fill the back.
Months later, I found the strength to let the interpreter translate the note.
I love you Daddy.
Come home.
"Scars" by Esther Davis is one of 20 short stories in their brand new book, "A Dog, 3
Cats, and a Dragon".
Available now on Amazon.
Esther is an author of family friendly science fiction and fantasy who regularly posts flash
fiction for free-reading on their website estherdavisauthor.wordpress.com
And for a limited time you can head over to goodreads to enter to win a signed copy.
Links in the description.
The artwork in this episode was provided with permission by artist Mohammad H. Attaran.
Find more of his amazing work at https://mhattaran.artstation.com/
Hey guys!
I loved the concept of robotic avatars in this piece.
If I had to choose I think I would plug into some sort of aquatic avatar and explore the
ocean.
What do you think, what kind of avatar would be the coolest?
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newsletter.
I'm Chris Herron and that's it for today's Tall Tale TV.
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In Roon ROCK - Roon Core for the Intel NUC part 1 and 2 I have showed you how to prepare
an Intel NUC computer for use with the Roon ROCK music server software. Now we are ready
to see how this little wonder can be used.
Roon is about the most versatile and least single minded music server software I know.
The software is fully transparent for audio and thus, potentially, is able to provide
the highest quality audio achievable. But whether you will enjoy this optimal performance
depends on the configuration and the hardware used. The prepared Intel NUC computer running
Roon ROCK is basically a headless server but can also be used as player. If you connect
a headphone or amplifier directly to the NUC and define the analogue output of the NUC
as an endpoint, you can already play music. But don't get your expectations up too high
for the sound quality will be rather low. Computers are great for handling bits but
analogue sound is not their forte. You do need to use an external device to convert
the bits to analogue sound and there are several ways to do this. Let's start with the simplest:
As said, you don't want to have the computer do the digital to analogue conversion. Computers
are notoriously noisy and that will destroy the analogue low level information while that
is where the fine details are hidden. Especially the clock that is needed to offer the samples
just on time for conversion can be - and almost always will be - disturbed by interference
of other clock signals in a computer. That not only affects d/a-conversion but also digital
outputs, SPDIF signals have the clock signal embedded and an external d/a-converter will
have to slave to this clock. Therefore the SPDIF output will offer poor quality too.
In general the best way to connect a d/a-converter to a normal computer is using the modern version
of USB audio. This is a USB 2 connection using an asynchronous protocol and is used by all
modern d/a-converters - abbreviated DAC. It asks the computer over USB for audio bits
until its buffer is full. It then signals the computer to stop sending. In the mean
time it starts converting the bits, timed by a local clock oscillator, to analogue audio.
When the buffer starts to empty, the DAC sends a request for more bits and so on. The clock
oscillator in the DAC plays a very important role; a poor clock will always results in
low audio quality. Unfortunately a good clock alone is not a guarantee for good quality since other
factors come into play as wel, like the d/a conversion chip, the power supply and the
PCB design. And even the analogue output stage can be of great influence. A good DAC
is a DAC that is properly designed, using quality components. See my reviews to make
your pick. Anyway, if you want the Intel NUC Roon ROCK computer to be close to the stereo,
a modern DAC connected over USB will be the best choice. Only when you want to use an
AV receiver that has HDMI inputs, you might try to connect the NUC to the receiver using
HDMI. Although audio is transported in-between a video signal, good AV-receivers manage to
straighten the signal and so offer a decent sound quality. So we now have two scenarios:
The Intel NUC running Roon ROCK connected over async USB to a DAC or the Intel NUC running
Roon ROCK connected over HDMI to an AV receiver.
In both cases there might be room for improvement. Whether that pays depends on the quality of
your stereo, the way it is set up and whether you are a critical listener. Suggestions I
do here are proven to improve the audio quality in my set 1. That doesn't automatically
mean they will work in your setup. But indication where it will work and where not is rather
difficult if not impossible. I can only guaranty you won't hear the difference over a set of
50 euro PC speakers. The improvements all have to do with lowering the noise so it will
not mask the low level information. Let's start with the power supply that came with
the Intel NUC computer. This is a so called switching mode power supply - SMPS abbreviated.
It works by switching a voltage at a very high frequency - about the same a class D
amps work. The advantage are clear: low component cost and very high efficiency. The disadvantage
for audio is that the switching frequency might - or almost always will - pollute the
power feed. This causes the audio signal to be masked to a certain degree. A DAC is in
fact a digitally controlled tap, like a beer tap, where the current is like the beer. Feed
a beer tap with slim beer and you get a very poor tasting beer. Feed a DAC with a polluted
voltage and it will produce a poor sound. So if you go for quality and you want to connect
the DAC directly to the NUC, consider a high quality power supply. This will often be a
so called linear power supply, an old fashioned transformer with electronics. It is possible
to design a switching mode power supply that is just as silent but that often is more costly
than a linear design. A decent power supply will set you back around € 100, a very good
power supply will be more in the region of € 300 to € 400. Please check if the power
supply is able to deliver enough wattage for your configuration by finding out the so called
Processor TDP in watts and adding 5 watt for SSD's, 6.5 watt for a 2.5 hard disk, 6 wear
for the sound card and 3 watt for a USB device. My 6th generation i3 with a M.2 SSD and a
2.5 inch spinning drive ran on the sBooster BOTW P&P ECO 18-19 volts, but the 26 watts
might not be sufficient for more powerful systems. If you google for Intel NUC linear
power supply you will find more powerful options. Do bare in mind though that all linear power
supplies are equal but some are more equal than others..
Now we have a more or less clean signal going asynchronously over USB to the DAC. This can
can be powered in several ways. If it is powered over USB, the quality of the power supply
you use for the Intel NUC is even more critical. If it is powered by its own internal power
supply, there is not much to improve. But if your DAC uses a wall wart power supply,
chances are it is a poor performing switching mode power supply too. In many cases replacing
this power supply by a audio-grade power supply does improve the audio quality considerable.
You will not use the USB cable that came with the DAC but use an audio grade cable. I use
the Audioquest Cinnamon USB, it is affordable and offers good quality. You could try devices
to further clean the signal like the AudioQuest Jitterbug and the Alldac ADQ galvanic separator.
See the links in the show notes. There are other practical considerations. If your NUC
has a fan inside, you might want to place it so that this sound is damped while at the
same time letting enough cool air flow to it. Also hard disks can be noisy, another
thing to keep in mind.
All those problems don't occur when you place the Intel NUC Roon ROCK computer in
another room and use a device near your stereo that receives the audio bits over the network.
Roon has developed a very sophisticated protocol especially for this job, called Roon Advanced
Audio Transport, RAAT for short. It doesn't only send audio data to the playback device
but also remote control signals, including volume. If the playback device supports it,
you can have Roon control the - often analogue - volume control of the playback device. So
there is no longer the need to use DSP power to level all music, something I dreamed of
for years. Currently most devices don't support this, but that is a matter or time. Furthermore
RAAT also sends some metadata like track name, album name, artist and cover art. Again, this
is not yet beneficiary to most devices. And talking of devices, what are those?
The simplest form a of Roon Endpoint, as Roon calls any device that offers playback over
the Roon software, is the networked audio adaptor. You could say it is a USB output
that is driven over the network. A Raspberry Pi with a HAT board that offers either SPDIF
output or contains a d/a-converter is a networked audio adaptor. Using the SPDIF output to drive
a DAC can offer rather good quality. HAT boards - the expansion board standard for the Raspberry
Pi - containing a DAC offer far lower quality. If you want higher quality, devices like the
Sonore MicroRendu and the SOtM-sMS-200 offer rather clean USB feeds but you do need a DAC
that has a USB input. See the show notes for links to reviews. There also are quality devices
that offer SPDIF and/or even I2S feeds. Reviews are in the making. With the exception of the
Raspberry Pi solutions, networked audio adaptors are relatively expensive solutions compared
to DAC's and DAC/amp combinations that incorporate a Roon Ready receiver. But they might be a
better solution if you already have a quality DAC of want a free choice of DAC. Do realise
that when the power supplies of the DAC and the networked audio adaptor are poor quality
switching mode supply, these will again reduce the audio quality and should be replaced for
audio grade power supplies.
RoonLabs developed the Roon Ready label so that incorporating a Roon Ready function into
a device is rather low cost. This means that over time there will be more and more DAC's
that have a network interface and Roon Ready support. The potential audio quality when
using the Intel NUC Roon ROCK server is extremely high as can be concluded from supporters of
the format like Audio Alchemy, Auralic, Brinkmann, dCS, Krell, Meridian, MQB, NAD, PS-Audio and
other high end brands. The advantage of using the network is not only that the server can
be placed at great distance, but also that the ethernet protocol, like async USB, is
asynchronous, meaning the clock in the playing device rules. At the lower end the Bluesound
program of streamers are also Roon Ready and thus can be used as Roon endpoints. And I
already mentioned the Raspberry Pi with a HAT board containing a d/a-converter as truly
low end solution. Again, do realise that when the power supply of the DAC is a poor quality
switching mode supply, it will again reduce the audio quality and thus should be replaced
for an audio grade power supply.
Many DAC's also offer volume control and thus can function as preamp. But some brands
announced integrated amps: Bel Canto announced the ACI600 integrated amp that not only is
Roon Ready but also MQA certified. At $ 25,000 it might not be within reach for many but
Elac has announced the DS-A101-G that will set you back a mere € 599 and offers a 2
x 100 watts BASH Tracking amp. In-between you find several NAD devices that can be made
Roon compatible by a Bluesound module. And the Bluesound amp versions must be mentioned
also.
This video is produced in july 2017 and at that moment no serious Roon Ready speakers
were on the market and only Elac has announced that a number of their speakers will become
available as active models that will use Wifi to receive Roon Ready signals. But rumours
are there on a number of brands. This might be a solution that is appreciated by many:
you only need to place the NUC with ROCK somewhere in the house, connected to the network while
in the living room only two active speakers need to be connected to the mains outlets.
Roon ROCK is available for some NASsen, so why not run it on a NAS? Well, the only reason
to do that is to be fashionable. To be able to tell your friends you have a NAS running.
And if that is what you want, that's fine. But do realise that Roon ROCK does require
at least an Intel i3 processor and the OS should be running on an SSD drive. Otherwise
Roon will be very slow or even unusable. NASses with those spec's are very expensive, far
more expensive than an Intel NUC computer. And don't forget, a NAS is essentially nothing
else than a computer that runs specific software for sharing volumes. The NUC running ROCK
is in fact also a NAS or even a server but then fully optimised as Roon music server.
I use an 8 terabyte USB drive connected to the NUC and have it backed up to a Drobo RAID
drive for security. But if you like, you can use a normal consumer grade NAS for storage
and the NUC running Roon as music server.
Using the network to separate the server from the audio components might be a very good
solution. Then a high quality power supply for the NUC might not provide quality improvement.
But like network cables and linear power supplies for switches, it might give improvement in
high quality set ups. Also consider that you can have a mix of qualities in the house.
The highest quality for the living - or listening room if you're lucky enough, lower quality
for the garage and study and basic quality for the children's rooms. Don't forget that
Roon also works perfectly with Sonos and Airplay equipment; it will automatically downsample
high-res music for both systems. You can set up an unlimited number of endpoints, combine
them in groups and send one of eight separate audio streams to each group. You can also
set EQ and other properties per endpoint. And that's all great but the real power
of Roon to me is the unsurpassed navigation and the metadata. Some say that $ 500 for
a lifetime subscription is too expensive. And it will be to some. But consider that
we payed lots more for quality cd-players and SACD-players that offered less quality
and now have no longer serviceable laser optics. I know people that have spent more on accessories
for their CD-player. And if you don't want to spend the money, that's fine too. Use
whatever you want to use but don't use the NL1601HBPROJECT promo code to test Roon free
for two months. For I asure you there is no way back. Roon is constantly improving their
software and protocols and I will, of course, keep track of the developments. So stay in
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