![]() ![]() The old adage goes that anything new in technology is first monetized and then it’s pornified. In fact, they were one of the first industries to embrace this technology. The porn industry also jumped into VR quickly. By playing the game SnowWorld through a set of VR goggles and using a joystick to throw snowballs at cute penguins, severe burn patients find that their sensation of pain decreases greatly while playing the game. The University of Washington Medical Center is now using virtual reality video games instead of addiction-forming narcotic painkillers (e.g., morphine) as part of its pain-management program for severe burn victims. VR also has amazingly helpful training uses for the military and in the medical field. But if the real thing isn’t possible, then VR can be a good surrogate. Or maybe someone’s health or age prevents them from visiting an exotic or natural place that’s always been on their bucket list. Especially during lock-down periods when it’s not possible to physically visit certain places. VR has educational, therapeutic, and amazing experiential uses. I purchased an Oculus this week and performed a full review so that parents know exactly what the risks are and can make an informed decision about what’s best for their kids, now that virtual reality is mainstream. And as more games a videos offer a VR experience (YouTube has an entire VR channel), more kids are asking parents for an Oculus Quest 2. The most popular virtual reality (VR) hardware belongs to Meta’s Oculus (formerly Facebook).
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![]() If you let your subscription lapse, you’ll no longer be able to edit documents in Microsoft Word. Wrapping It UpĪ Microsoft 365 subscription comes with free software updates that arrive at least once per month. These are available through full-year subscriptions only. You can also find Microsoft 365 subscriptions through Amazon, sometimes with a nice discount attached. ![]() The first time you open any of the apps in the suite, you’ll need to authenticate your subscription by logging into your account. Once the Microsoft 365 download is complete, you can install the suite just as you would any other app on your Mac. Select Install Microsoft 365 under Subscriptions.Visit the Microsoft Home Use Program for more information. If your organization subscribes to Microsoft HUP, you can buy Office products at a discounted price. Click on your user account at the top right of the website. This topic is for customers who bought Office products through their employers Microsoft HUP benefit.After purchasing a Microsoft 365 subscription, you need to log into the website with your Microsoft username and password. You can also download and install Microsoft Word from the website. Besides Word, there’s Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. You can also find guides and product tests that will help you get the best deals. Downloading the Microsoft 365 app includes four of the supported apps. Microsoft Office 365 Personal 1 license(s) 1 year(s) Multilingual. You’ll still need a Microsoft 365 subscription, however, to activate the app. The easiest way to get Microsoft Word installed on your computer is through a Mac App Store download. ![]() The student plan is a one-time purchase of $150 and includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint only.īusiness users can select from Basic, Standard, and Premium plans, starting at $5 per user/month. The Personal version is for one person and is $70/year or $6.99 per month. The first is priced at $100 per year (or $10/month) and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for Mac, and is useful for up to six users. For home use, the Microsoft 365 suite is currently available in three varieties, including a Family, Personal, and Home & Student plan. ![]() You can write a color in the formats: HEX, RGB, or HSL.Ĭolors in backticks are followed by a color indicator: The following features are not found in standard Markdown. Math equations and symbols written in LaTeXįeatures extended from standard Markdown: Standard Markdown.However, GitLab Flavored MarkdownĮxtends standard Markdown with features made specifically for GitLab. GitLab uses standard CommonMark formatting. Differences between GitLab Flavored Markdown and standard Markdown For more information, see the gitlab-markup gem project. You can also use other rich text files in GitLab. Snippets (the snippet must be named with a. ![]() You can use GitLab Flavored Markdown in the following areas: ![]() Where you can use GitLab Flavored Markdown It was inspired by GitHub Flavored Markdown. GitLab Flavored Markdown extends the CommonMark specification. You should not view this page in the documentation, but instead view these styles as they appear on GitLab. The GitLab documentation websiteĪnd the main GitLab website use Kramdown instead. When this list is rendered, it looks like this: Copy from spreadsheet and paste in Markdown.Multiple underscores in words and mid-word emphasis.Features extended from standard Markdown.Embedding metrics in GitLab Flavored Markdown.Show the issue, merge request, or epic title in the reference.Features not found in standard Markdown.Differences between GitLab Flavored Markdown and standard Markdown.Where you can use GitLab Flavored Markdown. That it resumed its course and was subsequently set for self-destruct, by you, for reasons unknown. In that for reasons unknown, the Nostromo set down on LV-426, an unsurveyed planet at that time. Van Leuwen: The lifeboat's flight recorder corroborates some parts of your account. ![]() Insurance attorney: Forty-two million in adjusted dollars. Now, you freely admit detonating the engines of, and thereby destroying an M-class star freighter, a rather expensive piece of hardware. How many different ways you want me to tell you the same story? Van Leuwen: Look at it from our perspective, please. We have been here for three and a half hours. Hudson: Have you ever been mistaken for a man? Vasquez: No, have you? Dialogue Ripley: I don't understand this. Others Vasquez: You always were an asshole, Gorman. Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
The Dybbuk Box is never displayed open and is held within a glass case surrounded by a protective circle of sage and salt. Viewing the box in its own closed off room is optional for guests. Well known as the world’s most haunted object, the Dybbuk Box is treated as such at Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum. Peggy the doll pictured before she was acquired by Zak Bagans. These symptoms have occurred in people interacting with Peggy in real life and from simply viewing video footage of her. These precautions are in place due to the physiological issues such as headaches, vomiting, chest pain and even a heart attack Peggy has been thought to have caused. Peggy is separated from guests inside this room by a stanchion, time inside the room is short and limited, guests should all greet Peggy with a hello and say goodbye as they leave and above all respect should be shown by never referring to Peggy as a thing or it etc. Guests are again given the option of entering this room and if they do so they must comply to a certain protocol. Within a glass box, inside a locked room, sits a blonde haired doll named Peggy. This entity is said to also appear behind those looking at their reflection with the sensation of having ones neck bitten occurring. It went on to terrorize a young woman who would see dark entities reach out of the mirror towards her. It was the soul witness to an unsolved murder within Lugosi’s home in 1982, with dark energy thought to be attached to it from that moment on. ![]() This curtain is opened for willing guests to peer into, one at a time, at their own risk. Would you dare gaze upon the below haunted items?Ĭonstantly kept behind a drawn curtain sits a mirror once owned by Bela Lugosi, most well known for his portrayal of Dracula in the 1931 film. ![]() Tour guides explain the dangers of viewing these particular items and allow their tour group to decide whether they would like to enter the presence of these items. Warning on display before entering Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum.Īrtifacts in the museum that are renowned for being extremely dangerous have been blocked off from the general tour route and offered as optional viewing to guests. These include a creepy doll room where the real Annabelle doll was used in an investigation, a room set up to look like a funeral parlor with real human skeletons on display, a ‘murderbillia’ room filled with serial killer’s personal items such as Charles Manson’s false teeth and John Wayne Gacy’s artwork, a scary clown room, a celebrity room of death displaying Michael Jackson’s chair seen in crime scene photos from his death, and a room dedicated to the Winchester Mystery House. Those brave enough to venture inside this haunted house filled with some of the world’s most sinister objects will journey through an array of themed rooms. More spooky dolls on display in The Haunted Museum. This type of history has made the Wengert House a perfect setting for Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum. ![]() Rumors Satanic rituals were held in the house’s basement have persisted since the 1970’s, with trespassing teenagers reportedly sighting pentagrams and blood strewn across the basement’s floor. Past residents have claimed the house to be haunted, encountering malicious spirits and those of family members who had passed away in the house. Wengert, and his family played an integral part in forming Las Vegas into the city it is today. Built in 1938, the property was once one of the largest buildings in Las Vegas. The Wengert House has long been a notorious landmark for Las Vegas’ residents. Front view of Las Vegas’ Wengert House, home to Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum. The experience is so real that guests under the age of 16 are not permitted and anyone who enters must sign a waiver acknowledging the danger they may encounter behind The Haunted Museum’s doors. The museum, which occupies a known haunted building, is full of macabre curiosities and items with backstories lending weight to the fact they are cursed or possess attached spirits. Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum is the real deal. Front lobby creepy doll display where photos are allowed. ![]() His deeply involved past with the paranormal and lifelong obsession with collecting cursed and haunted objects excel his museum above any typical ‘haunted’ attraction. Recently, Zak opened an attraction in Downtown Las Vegas appropriately named The Haunted Museum. Tickets to Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum. He’s also been a part of various other paranormal television series, written numerous books on the subject and is soon to release a documentary focussed on a well known demonic possession. He is the host and executive producer of the Travel Channel’s hit television series Ghost Adventures, where he and a small team investigate the world’s most haunted locations. Zak Bagans is well adept to the world of the paranormal. ![]() Python’s website maintains a list of all Python releases on this link: In case you did not have Python installed in the first place, you can install it as sudo through the following command after running apt-get update: $ sudo apt-get install python3 Manually Install Python from Source Now when you check the version number of Python, you will see an updated installation: ![]() The latest available version of Python will now be installed on your system. The system will also prompt you with a y/n option in order to confirm the upgrade please enter Y and then hit Enter to continue. The system might ask you the password for sudo as only an authorized user can add/remove and upgrade software on Ubuntu. Since we already have Python installed on our system, as verified in the previous section, we only need to upgrade it to the latest version as follows: $ sudo apt-get upgrade python3 Run the following command as sudo in order to do so: Advertisement $ sudo apt-get update First, you need to update your system repository index with that of the Internet so that the latest available version can be installed. Installing Python through the apt-get command is pretty simple. The following command will help you get a list of all Python versions you have on your system: $ apt list -installed | grep python You might also have several versions of Python installed on your system. The version number will appear as shown in the above output, depending on when you updated your system. 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