![]() ![]() ![]() But if it worked once, why not try again? It would seem prudent to avoid rocking the boat knowing that the competitive landscape was about to get tougher as consumers would now have the choice of new streaming services from Apple, Disney, CBS, YouTube and many others. Netflix could have taken their pricing windfall and called it a day. ![]() You can guess what happened to Netflix’s stock price. (Sidenote: Even very small pricing increases can have an outsized impact on a company’s profitability. Operating income jumped to $245M, up from $154M the previous year. With more subscribers, and with all subscribers now paying 10% more on average, Netflix saw a massive increase in profits. When asked about the impact of the price increase, CEO Reed Hastings told analysts, “We saw very little effect on sign ups and growth and thus, the really strong results.” #Humblebrag. Both new and existing customers happily swallowed the price increase, which lifted Netflix’s revenue by 35% (faster than their 25% growth in average paid streaming memberships). In fact, Netflix added 2 million new streaming subscribers in the US and 6.4 million overseas, 33% more than what Wall Street analysts had forecast. Subscriber growth was not hurt by the pricing increase whatsoever. On Monday, January 22, Netflix announced the results in their Q4 2017 earnings.īy all measures, colossal success. Given the company’s fraught history with pricing, I could not wait to hear how the 2017 pricing changes are impacting Netflix’s bottom line went. With this new change, Netflix announced that existing customers would be automatically migrated into new plans – a move in stark contrast to a 2014 pricing change that grandfathered in existing customers, allowing them to keep lower prices for two years before being migrated to the newer, more expensive plans. ![]() This change crossed a critical threshold in the minds of consumers and create a sizable gap in price between Netflix and Hulu Plus (which rings in at $7.99 a month). They raised the price of their core Standard plan from $9.99 per month to $10.99 per month. In October of 2017, Netflix announced another pricing change. All of this uncertainty didn’t instill much confidence…įast forward to present day. And, if they had run focus groups, he wasn’t sure what those focus groups had said. When asked about the 2011 price change, Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings said he wasn’t sure if the company had run customer focus groups before announcing the new plans. In the chart below, you can see the painful progression (courtesy of Yahoo! Finance). Over the course of four months, Netflix’s stock price dropped by almost 80% compared to July 2011. Their stock price plummeted immediately following their Q3 2011 earnings release. Netflix lost a whopping 800,000 subscribers in Q3 2011. The public reaction was staggeringly negative. And they rebranded their DVD-by-mail business to Qwikster. They unbundled streaming plans from the traditional DVD-by-mail business, increasing the price of the combined offering from $10 a month to $16 a month. Back in 2011, Netflix restructured their pricing in a big way. Editor’s Note: This article was first published on January 25, 2018. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Mindy’s teen twin daughters Brooklyn & Bailey have taken after her and launched a digital career with over 5 Million YouTube subscribers of their own, as well as the completion of a 16-city concert tour for their original music, and a wholly-owned new mascara product launching in May 2018.About Me CGH Insider NewsletterDon’t leave without subscribing! Subscribe and stay up-to-date with my email newsletter!Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Email *SubscribeAs Featured In:Cute Girls HairstylesHomePressPrivacy PolicyDisclaimer© Cute Girls Hairstyles | by Mindy McKnightAn Elite Cafemedia Lifestyle Publisher Go to mobile version /* */ jQuery(".entry-content").fitVids() /* */ jQuery(document). The Cute Girls Hairstyles family has received local, national, and global attention through various media outlets including ABCNews’ 20/20, Good Morning America, TODAY, Anderson LIVE, Katie, and The View. ![]() Wrap each elastic band securely around the extension, one at a time, leaving some space in between each band as shown in the GIF. Cut open the elastic bands before using them, and then tie them around your extension. Mindy is currently ranked as YouTube’s top mom-focused channel with over 5.5 million subscribers, generating 13 million monthly views. First, hang your hair extension loosely and pin it to something firm. While Mindy’s hairstyle tutorials started as a hobby, their family channels have over 12 Million subscribers with videos being viewed more than 2 Billion times in nearly every country worldwide. Comment * Name * Email * Website Cute Girls Hairstyles About Mindy McKnightMindy McKnight, YouTube’s favorite mom, launched the highly-successful website in late 2008 and the subsequent CuteGirlsHairstyles YouTube channel one year later. ![]() ![]() To give you a complete picture, let’s take a look at a few more positions of a bit different sorts of fortresses. This will help you to add up those Elo points or perhaps even collect a few more trophies! You will save more games, and draw instead of losing interior positions. Now, as you have understood and remembered my previous examples, you definitely know more about fortresses than the majority of your opponents. Interestingly, if we added more pawns to this chain (White pawn on e4, the Black pawn on e5 the White pawn on d3, the Black pawn on d4) it wouldn’t change the evaluation: the position we see is a fortress! Once again White is unable to make any progress because of the stalemate threat. To make sure your experience with the bishop endgames is complete, I found one more example, that is less likely to be encountered, still, it is important to better understand fortresses. But Black can benefit from a few tempi he possesses to hold this position. The pawn is on h5, which means that if White had time to bring his king over, he would win. Now once again I’ll try to show you, how you can apply the acquired knowledge in practice: If White had the pawn on h5, he would have been able to play Kh6, forcing the black’s king out of the corner and winning the game in style! #4 – the Pawn on h5 But since the pawn is already on h6, White cannot achieve anything but a stalemate, as he’s incapable of forcing the opponent’s king out of the corner. Yes, that’s right, the bishop is of the “right” color and it controls the h8-square. Here we see one more interesting position. Hardly possible with seconds on your clock, is it?īy looking at this simple example, we can understand why it’s so useful to know the basic ideas behind a fortress.
![]() Yes, you might try do do timing in the generated code, but it would be a more challenging task. ![]() In principal with enough information about instruction timings, you could incorporate the same delays in modern emulators. You’d just have to inject a whole bunch of delays throughout the code. Even so though, there’s no technical reason you shouldn’t be able to emulate authentic timing characteristics close to the instruction level. I would guess these are a common source of problems for emulators. Windows software is more robust than DOS software because it was designed for concurrent multiprocessing in the first place whereas DOS programs would assume there’s nothing else running and they could use busy looping for timing. I had a midi player that suffered from tracker jitter and I think this is why. Bad software depends on instruction timings instead of interrupts & timers. It’s easy to slow down to match the average execution speed, but if those pauses happen in different places it could produce unexpected problems for things like framerate and sound playback. ![]() For example many old turbo pascal programs would crash on newer computers because the standard library’s calibration routine fails on fast computers.īeing able to faithfully slow down an emulator is an interesting problem. It’s possible that old software will exhibit new race conditions, but this has less to do with virtualization and more to faulty logic in a program that will fail even on real hardware. If the old software can run on new CPUs (x86 has an amazing reputation for backwards compatibility), then it will likely work well under virtualization too. Do you want faster emulation? Or more accurate one? ![]() Today it’s still noteworthy that QEMU supports the very same virtual drivers when running its own JIT translation mode and running on a physical CPU under KVM.Īlso for some programs you want to limit CPU speed. You should be able to replace the CPU simulator of 86Box and while maintaining the same virtual PCI bus peripherals. Bochs emulated the CPU state in full, while QEMU used dynamic JIT code. I believe at one point QEMU and Bochs used the exact same virtual hardware abstractions despite drastically different CPU implementations. Is there really a difference though? Port IO is port IO and memory IO is memory IO regardless of how the CPU accomplishes it’s work. Old sound cards, VGA behavior, or other random stuff might be easier in DOSBox/86Box than trying to do the same in a paravirtualized or a hypervisor based environment. There are some limits to emulation of hardware peripherals. ![]() ![]() Correcting posture and reducing lower back pain.Some of the most common claims that waist trimmers make are: Need a workout program? Get 3 free workouts on Fitbod right now. When they are tightened, they pull the midsection in as much as possible.īecause waist trimmers are uncomfortable to wear, most brands recommend starting off with wearing them for just an hour or two per day and gradually increasing the amount of time you keep them on. They can be fastened with velcro, hook and eye closures, or laces. Waist trimmers are typically made out of neoprene and have boning, often made out of steel, to help give them structure. ![]() People (mostly women) wear them either under their clothes during the day to give the appearance of a slimmer waist or hourglass figure or to help them sweat more during workouts in the hopes of boosting fat loss efforts. Waist trimmers are garments or large belts that are worn tightly around the midsection. I’ll also analyze some research regarding waist trimmers and offer alternatives for you to consider instead. In this article, I’ll go into more detail about what exactly waist trimmers are and the claims they make about how they can change your body. If you want to slim down, you’ll be better off eating in a calorie deficit, following a well-structured fitness routine like the ones you can find in the Fitbod app, and getting in more steps during the day. Waist trimmers are not only ineffective at helping you lose weight but can also cause significant damage if worn incorrectly. Waist trimmer companies claim that wearing one can help promote weight loss and change the shape of your body, but these claims are largely disproven by doctors and researchers. And when people want to change something about themselves they don’t like, they tend to turn to easy fixes such as waist trimmers to help them reach their goals as quickly as possible.īut what are waist trimmers, and do they really work? Waist trimmers are tight-fitting garments that are worn around the midsection to help the waistline appear more defined. ![]() Losing belly fat and getting a slimmer waist are two common goals amongst people who are unhappy with their bodies. ![]() ![]() In a time when critics were already sharpening their axes, Houston made a comeback not only with a Billboard 200 #1 album but her rendition of Diane Warren's "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" at Oprah was the jewel in her crown. Most bittersweet is the album's final cut. Already plagued by the crippling effects of drugs, her 2004 performance of "I Believe in You and Me" still shows she can belt with poise, attitude and the added wisdom that were missing when the song was first recorded in the 90s. While the original version has a monotonous bridge, here Whitney without the scaffoldings of her studio band, Houston lets loose allowing her Gospel roots to come to the fore. Rather, with a wizened grit, she sings her 1998 hit "My Love is Your Love" live better than her studio version. Though her later years were a fodder for the tabloids, Houston has never really waned as a performer. If you look at the DVD don't miss how Houston's mom Cissy Houston's face beams with joy as she sees how her daughter plays around with the audience in a jazzy take of her 1991 #1 ballad "All the Man that I Need." Then when we come to the pinnacle of Houston's career - the Bodyguard years - be prepared to hear Houston's epic medley when she delivers a medley of show tunes beginning with "I Loves You, Porgy," "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" before seamlessly transitioning to her #4 hit "I Have Nothing." The way she draws us in, pauses, teases us, before unleashing every ounce of life leaves us speechless in awe. The album starts off with the Newark native a couple of years before she released her debut album "Whitney Houston." Her first introduction to the media finds a 19 year-old Houston singing "Home," the theme song to the musical "The Whiz." Though Houston still lacked the confidence of her prime with too many irritating Broadway theatrics in her voice, she shows potential.Ĭonspicuously missing from this set is her first #1 hit "Saving All My Love for You." But her earlier career is well represented by her jaw dropping version of "One Moment in Time." A million times better than her studio version, Houston takes her time to establish herself first before exploding towards the end with lots of high and long holding note so befitting of the song's lyrics to carpe diem. Arranged chronologically from her 1983 performance at the Merv Griffin Show to her final swan song in 2009 at Oprah, the album forms a broad arc of a biopic. It has taken her mentor Clive Davis and the president of Houston's estate Pat Houston two years after Houston's passing for a live album to surface. Though Whitney Houston has had major World Tours ensuing the release of every of her major album and soundtracks (save for "Just Whitney" and "One Wish"), no live album has ever been released while the diva was still alive. This is why if you look at the singing demeanor of countless contestants on TV show such as "American Idol" or "The Voice," you can see Houston's indelible influence all over. ![]() Especially when she sings live, you can see her singing taking on a persona of itself. Her ability to get you move to edge of your sit and her ability to make you want to get up in standing ovation are all inherent in just her stage presence itself. Her command over her audience is pure mesmerizing. ![]() When she gets to the stage, she shows you who the Queen of the Night is. Nonpareil as her vocals may be, it's only a snippet of her greatness. Not only can Houston rattle her audience with her elongated and loud notes, but when she gets soft and tender, she equally gets to our hearts. A one-syllable word like "you" in Houston's hands can be so elastic that it stretches over an entire scale of notes. Especially when she sings live, she has the agility to bend her notes and stretch them until they reach the heavens. ![]() Vocally, she's an Olympic gold medal-awarded gymnast. When Whitney Houston sings, she pulverizes. Prime Cuts: Medley: I Loves You, Porgy/And I Am Telling You Im Not Going/I Have Nothing (The 21st Annual American Music Awards, 1994), I Didn't Know My Own Strength (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2009), One Moment In Time (The 31st Annual Grammy® Awards, 1989) ![]() ![]() ![]() Cuisinart CPB-300 350 Watt BPA-Free Blender: The slender, tall motor base was great for those with limited counter space.But we didn't enjoy how much pressure we had to exert by pushing the blending cup down the entire time the machine was running (we prefer to build our muscles in the gym instead, thank you). Ninja Fit: This machine was super easy to use, store, and clean.Ninja BN401 Nutri Pro Compact Personal Blender: While we appreciated the multiple buttons and functions, such as “crush,” “smoothie,” and “pulse,” the Ninja was simply too large, too loud, too heavy-duty, and too slow (the automatic smoothie setting took 50 seconds).Serious Eats / Abigail Clarkin The Competition The smoothie was even, creamy, and completely blended within the 40-second automated “smoothie” setting. We were very pleased with how the Zwilling handled blending smoothies and milkshakes. While it had a medium-sized motor base-measuring 5.75 inches wide-the square-shaped personal blender did not take up too much space on the counter. ![]() The machine was also sleek, simple, and aesthetically pleasing. The Zwilling’s cross blade, on the other hand, was set on the topmost part of the lid and any nooks and crannies were set along the outside for easy access when cleaning. This made cleaning other personal blenders a little annoying as dried liquids and foods could get stuck in these nooks. Cleaning the Zwilling was especially easy too: typically, other machines had cross blades that were inset, meaning the extractor blade was set inside the lid, with grooved sides rising up on all sides. This meant the user could choose their own adventure, rather than being stuck with only an automatic setting. We enjoyed that the settings included both a manual pulse option, as well as an automatically timed smoothie setting. It was easy to use since the control knob had three settings: on/off, pulse, and smoothie. What we liked: The Zwilling impressed us immediately. These similarities were shared between the Nutribullet RX (which measured the largest with a 4.5-inch diameter opening), Nutribullet Personal Blender, Nutribullet NB9-1301 K Pro, and the BELLA Rocket Extract PRO Power Blender. On the other hand, the size of the cup (which had a 32-ounce capacity) was great for adding ingredients since larger items, such as leafy kale or misshapen frozen fruits, didn’t need to be squished down or added individually in order to fit. When tilting the cup to pour, all of the liquids-and any icy bits-rushed forward at the same time. While we were pleased overall with the performance of the NutriBullet NB9-1301 K Pro, we did find the larger diameter of the opening led to light spillage. It quickly became apparent that Goldilocks would have had an opinion: some blending cups were too small, some were too big, and some were just right. Unfortunately we do not have control over these cookies, in this case you should refer to the list of cookies on this page which provides further details.When it came to filling the blender jars, wider openings and larger jars made it easier.ĭuring testing, we poured out a fair amount of smoothies, slush, and milkshakes. We have taken steps to try to ensure that the cookies being used fit the descriptions used above and that the ‘Accept’ or ‘No thanks’ selection will honour your wishes but some third party cookies may still get downloaded. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. Used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. It is only used to improve how a website works. ![]() ![]() All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. Collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the options, however, can be accessed by hitting the Enter key on your keyboard while Dream Aquarium is running. The screensaver’s settings menu, accessible via the Screensaver Settings Panel in Windows or the Screen Saver panel in OS X, allows you to protect your tank from changes being made by other users, set the maximum number of fish to allow in the tank, as well as their size, and customize various graphics settings. What the money gets you is a virtual tank with 27 species of fish – as well as a fiddler crab cleaning the bottom of the aquarium – that behave much like their real-life counterparts: they peck at objects, eat food, chase each other, swim in schools, and even poop! Additional species, from the Red Tiger Discus to the Long-Finned Rosy Barb, can be purchased separately for $2 each, or as a pack containing all 10 species for $8. Twenty percent of profits are donated to environmental charities, with a focus on habitat and wildlife conservation, as well as climate change and alternative energy sources, and a free demo version with limited options and nag-screens is available for anyone who wants to try before they buy. Inspired by his love of fish, Kapler, who was honored with an Academy Technical Achievement Award in 2005 for a software program he developed, left Hollywood to work on Dream Aquarium, which he first released in 2006 and is still actively developing.Ĭontinuous development is made possible by the fact that Dream Aquarium comes with the small price tag of $19.95 (payable via credit card or PayPal).
![]() ![]() So, to maximise your immunity, get vaccinated during March or early April as the vaccine becomes available. Pregnant women who contract the flu are at increased risk of hospitalization and death, making getting the vaccine even more important.Ī: To get the full benefits of the vaccine, you ideally want to get vaccinated before the flu season hits and the virus starts to spread. Q: Can I have the vaccine if I am pregnant?Ī: Flu vaccines are safe for pregnant women and their unborn babies. People at high risk are more likely to suffer from severe complications from the influenza virus. Pneumonia is the most common serious complication of influenza. Q: Am I at high risk for contracting the flu – making the vaccine a priority for me?Ī: Healthcare workers, pregnant women, children under five years old, the elderly (65 years and older) and HIV-infected people, adults with severely weakened immune systems or tuberculosis or chronic illnesses like diabetes, lung disease and heart disease are at increased risk of being hospitalized from the flu. However, it's possible that you catch the flu - or seem to - even if you get a flu shot. The vaccine given to adults contains inactivated flu viruses which just help your system develop antibodies, so you can't get the flu from the vaccine itself. Q: If I get the vaccine will it give me the flu?Ī: No. ![]() Some reactions might not be related to the vaccine. In this case, check with your doctor first, though.
![]() ![]() The file will be overwritten if it already exists.) To repair a driver installation: setup /f. To install the driver normally (with user interaction), but log results: setup /v'/L filename.log' (Note that filename.log should be set to your desired log file name. I need to stop my ECU over fuelling when cold, because I do a lot of short journeys and my plugs soon get sooted. To install just the USB SuperPro driver quietly: setup /v'/qb ADDLOCALUSBDriver'. Without a dongle emulator I need a laptop with parallel port to try it, plus I may have to give the dongle back at some point. I have the original software for developing fuelling maps for the 14CUX ECU. Unpack DUMPER.zip and start Dumper.exe on the computer that has Safe-Net ( Rainbow Technologies ) Sentinel dongle drivers installed and the hardware key connected to parallel port or USB port. Description : Sentinel SuperPro hardware key is a most. Features : parallel and USB dongles Up to 56 bytes Encryption algorithm up to 128 bytes of dongle memory multiplatform dongle. If someone can point me to a post which will help or offer advice for a "Rainbow Sentinel-C Version A", I would be very grateful. Description: Sentinel UltraPro hardware key is a new generation of most popular dongle used by well-known software vendors. Driver : Safe-Net Inc (ex Rainbow Technologies ) Sentinel SuperPro dongle driver. I have searched throughout this forum and can't find anything that has helped. It said no dongle found try advanced search, which 100% my CPU for about 15 minutes and did nothing. Sentinel UltraPro,SuperPro, Pro,Scribe,Cplus : 6.6 MB : Sentinel System Driver : v7.5. I assumed some versions where similar and tried the method and software suggested in other posts. I can not find any reference to version A only (not pro A, just Rainbow Sentinel-C Version A, that's all it says on the dongle). When I researched that dongle, the Rainbow Technologies Sentinel Pro, it described its operation as using only one or two lines of the parallel port to send. All the post I have read refer to Sentinel-C B, Pro, ProSuper or other, mine is a version A. I spent a couple of days googling and trying various pieces of software before asking here. ![]() With multiple license locking options, a feature-rich product catalog, and various activation and tracking options, Sentinel LDK ensures you have everything you need to effectively manage your entire product licensing lifecycle.Not really.Coupled with the entitlement management capabilities of Sentinel EMS, Sentinel LDK provides software vendors and device managers with an easy to use, end-to-end software licensing solution.Developer Assistance through Rainbows Professional Services Group. Sentinel, Sentinel Pro, Sentinel SuperPro, Sentinel UltraPro, Sentinel Scribe, Sentinel Scout, Sentinel C, Sentinel C Plus (A or B), NetSentinel. Sentinel HL is our flagship hardware-based license offering, which combines with Software License (SL) and Cloud License (CL) to form the comprehensive cross-locking portfolio of Sentinel LDK. Programs > Rainbow Technologies > Sentinel LM 7.x.x > English > Sentinel.Sentinel HL is a part of the Thales Sentinel LDK Licensing Solution The SentinelMedic is a utility created by Rainbow Technologies Technical Services Group to help you detect and prevent problems with your PC configuration and setup, in order to use the the Sentinel Security Hardware with its protected software. Very useful for troubleshooting and testing. Offering a memory capacity that is suitable for the majority of typical applications, Sentinel HL Pro leverages the same sophisticated security capabilities as the rest of the Sentinel HL range.įor details on all of the Sentinel HL variants and form factors, including technical specifications, please download the Sentinel keys datasheet. Sentinel Medic is a useful tool for detecting any Sentinel key attached to your computer. ![]() ![]() For this reason, it is always a good idea to contact the developer of your software product. This is information that Rainbow Technologies is not privy to. For most problems, intimate knowledge of the software packages security is needed. Sentinel HL Pro is our most popular form factor within the Sentinel HL product family. Sentinel Protection Installer v7.6.4 - ( Download Driver ) For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/2008/Vista. ![]() |
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