This leaked Call of Duty: Mobile skin is a gun turned into a battlefield, a miniature battlefield with tiny men who run around on top and fight and die, all while carried by a tiny guy who lives only to fight and die on a miniature battlefield inside of your phone, which is in turn held by you, a tiny person who lives only to oh God.
For the weapon's "reload," an offscreen airstrike destroys the tank, with the player lodging a new one in like they're replacing a mag. The pice de rsistance, though, is the weapon inspection animation: The camera zooms in on intensified combat on the diorama while some real classico WWII music with sad strings plays, followed by a rousing speech by none other than Brian Bloom, voice actor for Wolfenstein's BJ Blazcowicz and Varric Tethras of Dragon Age.
"Don't worry soldier, I'm with you every step of the way," Bloom intones (it is utterly indistinguishable from a dozen such monologues in the Wolfenstein games) while one little soldier helps another one off the ground. "We stand together, we fight for the generations to come." The helper soldier then disappears like an angel in a movie, with the one who got up looking around quizzically, before a faded black and white unit photo blows through the wind and sticks to the camera for a second before blowing away.
As for getting the thing, it's unclear when it will go live, and you can forget prosaic complaints like "spending a lot of money." Apparently, you don't just buy things on CoD: Mobile, it has one of those intricate, tokenized, vaguely gambling-reminiscent monetization systems that put my beloved crusty old CRPGs to shame in terms of pointless complexity. PCG FPS specialist Morgan Park described it to me as: "You buy draws that get more expensive each time until you have every item in the pool. Simply unlocking this gun could cost $150, and leveling it up could be hundreds more."
I'm going to level with you: That is the worst thing I have ever heard, but isn't that excessive horribleness the perfect companion to the skin's own sumptuous excess? Over on Call of Duty: Mobile, we are witnessing a new kind of surreal art that pairs the strangest work of gun view model crafting ever conceived with a microtransaction system that makes me want to go get beat up behind a bar just to feel something, and I think that's incredible.
Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he's not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.
Dawn Medlin, a professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems and Supply Chain Management has received a diversity award from Appalachian State University's Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA).
The awards are presented annually to faculty members, staff members or an administrators who understand and fully support diversity and social justice on Appalachian's campus. Awardees go above and beyond the call of duty and always serve as an advocate for diversity.
"Dr. Medlin is the epitome of a servant leader, as she always gives of her time, talents and treasures," said Director of Parent and Family Services Traci Rosyter, who served on the selection committee for the BFSA awards.
Medlin founded the Women of Walker program in the Walker College of Business to accelerate professional development, personal growth, and leadership abilities for female business majors at Appalachian. The group aims to support students through networking opportunities, career exploration, travel and professional development workshops and seminars. She is also involved with several other diversity initiatives on campus.
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The VoIP services provide fertile ground for criminal activity, thus identifying the transmitting computer devices from recorded VoIP call may help the forensic investigator to reveal useful information. It also proves the authenticity of the call recording submitted to the court as evidence. This paper extended the previous study on the use of recorded VoIP call for blind source computer device identification. Although initial results were promising but theoretical reasoning for this is yet to be found. The study suggested computing entropy of mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (entropy-MFCC) from near-silent segments as an intrinsic feature set that captures the device response function due to the tolerances in the electronic components of individual computer devices. By applying the supervised learning techniques of nave Bayesian, linear logistic regression, neural networks and support vector machines to the entropy-MFCC features, state-of-the-art identification accuracy of near 99.9% has been achieved on different sets of computer devices for both call recording and microphone recording scenarios. Furthermore, unsupervised learning techniques, including simple k-means, expectation-maximization and density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) provided promising results for call recording dataset by assigning the majority of instances to their correct clusters.
The UAB opens a second call for temporary loans of computer equipment and aids in internet connectivity to be able to follow online lectures and activities taking place during this semester. Nearly 100 aids were granted in the first call held a few weeks ago.
The UAB opens a second special call for the temporary loan of computer equipment and internet connectivity during the remainder of the second semester of the 2019/20 academic year, due to the state of alarm declared to fight against the COVID-19 emergency crisis. Deadline for applications is 27 April.
These special aids will go towards UAB students with difficulties in following their online lectures due to a lack of computer equipment or access to the internet. The aids will consist in a temporary loan of basic computer equipment or in helping establish a basic connection to the internet through a SIM card device.
Two types of aids are offered. Mode A is addressed to students who applied for a general study grant for the 2018/19 or 2019/20 academic year and whose family income is in the bracket 1 Equity grant, regardless of whether they were finally awarded the grant. Mode B is addressed to students who, regardless of whether they meet the requirements in Mode A, have obtained a letter of approval from their Dean's Office or Administration's Office of their teaching centre.
The aids will cover a maximum of 15,000 euros from the UAB budget. In the first call, almost 100 aids were distributed to students. In the case that the number of aids surpasses the preassigned budget for this call, priority will be given to students in Mode A.
The phone company Vodafone has provided the UAB with 65 SIM cards containing 60GB per month for students who need it at no additional cost. This will help students better adapt to the exceptional situation produced by this health crisis, and allow them access to online teaching contents and activities.
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Alverno students, faculty and staff may use the computers during Computer Center Hours. Alumna may use the Computer Center when it is open AND when the Read Center is not locked. Computer Center hours are available on the Alverno website; copies are also available in the Computer Center. All Computer Center users are responsible for reading and following the policies outlined in the Alverno College Technology Use Policies.
Children of Alverno students, faculty and staff are only allowed in the Computer Center with the supervision of an Alverno parent or guardian. Children (pre-school through high school) may use computers when computers are available. The adult must be seated next to the child at all times. If a child becomes loud or disturbs others, the adult and child will be asked to leave. The parent or guardian is responsible for the safety and well-being of the child.
Other community members (including spouses, friends, or relatives of Alverno students, faculty, or staff) may use computers only with special permission from the Director of Technology Services on a short-term basis and when computers are available. Computer Center patrons may be required to provide valid Alverno identification to the lab assistant on duty to obtain access to a computer.
A committee of faculty and staff was formed to address this issue and develop various ways to further the education of students, faculty, staff and guests about copyright issues. We met to share the issues related to copyright across departments: copyright compliance, downloading, using materials from the internet, etc. This is an ever evolving field (legal and technical), and we will continue to meet to discuss current concerns and our response to requests.
Alverno College believes in the power of education; therefore, we feel that education is the best way of combating the issue of illegally sharing copyrighted materials. Educational methods used at Alverno include:
We have a process in place for accepting and responding to Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) notices. Technology Services has a procedure for identifying the user of the computer through login and/or Keyserver logs, via the MAC address that faculty, staff and students provide when they register a personal device on the MyDevices portal or through the Cisco Wireless Control System. Notification of the offense to the appropriate department is then given. The Department Head will work with Human Resources or the Dean of Students for any appropriate employee/student disciplinary action.
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