![]() UPDATE NOTE: However, given the seeming inaccuracy of all speed measurement tools, and the fact that AmorphousDiskMark uses MiB and GiB to define test file size, it is impossible to say whether this software is accurate. Media creators should just use the top line test in most instances. It provides more details that are meaningful to a wider range of users. Once you find a tool you are comfortable using, use it consistently.ĪmorphousDiskMark is another tool we can use to measure storage speeds. I wouldn’t obsess too much over test result variability, provided that tool is essentially accurate. However, consistency does not necessarily mean accuracy. BMD delivers extremely consistent results, while AmorphousDiskMark varies a bit more. The closer standard deviation gets to zero, the less the variation. The Standard Deviation shows the variations between these tests. We are currently unable to tell which software is more accurate. UPDATE NOTE: However, there is debate currently on the accuracy of Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. As you can see looking at the green fields in this table, write speeds were reported about 8% slower, on average, and read speeds were reported about 2% slower. This table compares the speed of AmorphousDiskMark 4.0 to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test by running three tests each, then averaging the results. Again, I would compare the top line numbers. Make sure you are looking in the correct column before comparing numbers. ![]() NOTE: Read and write results are reversed between these two tests. Most of the time, I pay attention to the top line.Ĭomparing AmorphousDiskMark with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test shows variations in speed, so let’s look a bit deeper into those variations. Just click the buttons indicated by the red arrows. However, the last two tests are not generally needed for media creators, so, to save wear and tear on your storage, you don’t need to run these. To run all four tests, click the All button at the top. You can also set the number of tests, but the default setting of 5 is fine. MB will affect reported speeds with MiB up to 8% faster. Computers actually format data as powers of 2, so an MB is 1,024 KB while a GB is 1,024 MB. NOTE: MiB and GiB are marketing labels that define a megabyte as 1,000 KB and a gigabyte as 1,000 MB. Media creators should pick a larger file, around 4 GiB. Testing for databases or office files should pick a small file size, around 64 MiB. Next, determine the size of the test file. NOTE: Unlike hard drives, SSDs don’t change speed as they fill up. Installation is trivial and works just as you would expect.Īfter starting the application, select the storage you want to test from the popup menu at the top. If you want a detailed look as how fast your storage is, AmorphousDiskMark 4.0 provides a fast – and free – way to analyze your storage in depth.ĪmorphousDiskMark is available from the Mac App Store. The only downside is that you need to know which results apply to you and ignore those that don’t. What I like about this test is that it provides more detailed results that are applicable to a larger range of users (media creators, database administrators and IT specialists). Running a complete test takes about five minutes and yields results similar to, but slightly lower than, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. Media creators should pay attention to the top two lines in the on-screen report and ignore the bottom two. ![]() This simple-to-use utility analyzes storage performance two ways: sequential read/write (typical for media creators) and random access (typical for database and small file operations). I’m running these tests on an M1 MacBook Pro and testing a Samsung T5 PCIe SSD. Katsura Shareware was founded in 2004 to “create shareware that makes your Mac more useful and fun to use.” So far, they’ve published 16 different utilities.ĪmorphousDiskMark was released in January, 2022, and requires macOS 10.9.5 or later. IOPs (input/output operations per second) are more relevant for database or office operations which write or read smaller chunks of data. NOTE: MB/second is more appropriate for media creators because it measures how quickly files will transfer between storage and the computer. It joins Blackmagic Design Disk Speed test, AJA System Test Lite, and Activity Monitor in helping us determine if our storage is fast enough to handle the media we need to process. This free utility measures the speed of Mac-connected storage in both MB/second and IOPs. This can be compensated for in how the code is written, but there’s no way – from the outside – to tell if this correction is being made.Īfter reading my recent commentary about at the speed differences between Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and AJA System Test Lite, Lee suggested I look into AmorphousDiskMark, a Mac utility from Katsura Software. ![]() 15, 2022,): Measuring storage speeds using MiB and GiB, instead of MB and GB, can result in over-stating storage speed by up to 8%.
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On the positive side, the film does seem to say that whatever happens to Rob, it is through is own choices. The worst part is that the subject of the unfairness of mandatory sentencing laws, racial profiling, police arrogance, and the lack of hope in the inner city deserves better in either a drama or a comedy. Were this film made by Whites, showing African-Americans as criminal, sex-crazed idiots, reinforcing all the negative stereotypes, it would be considered racist to the extreme. The film offers no solutions to these and many other problems. The world portrayed, in this case the African-American community of Los Angeles, is one filled with hate, distrust, crime, drugs and backbiting. Marihuana smoking is justified because “it is not a felony.”ĬOMMENTS: This is supposed to be a comedy and since little of the comedy works what is left is a pretty ugly film. Thirty seconds out of jail, Rob lights up a joint while saying he’s going to make every effort to stay out of jail. SUBSTANCES: Everyone drinks and uses marijuana (including a working cab driver and an on-duty police officer). We see several skimpily dressed women in a strip club. The camera ogles one woman’s very short pants and later her hip-shaking seduction of Tone. A pornographic video game is seen for a long period. She appears in sexy, red underwear to have sex with Rob. Rob’s girlfriend, Juanita, claims to be his wife. In a hospital, JJ is threatened with homosexual rape by an orderly. Dahlia displays a large assortment of sexual equipment. Implied sex, heterosexual and homosexual, implied oral sex – all followed by a leering fade-to-black. Women are strictly sex objects, to be conquered sexually or ogled at. Rob and his father masturbate while watching a TV exercise program. SEXUALITY & GENDER ISSUES: Nuclear family. Extreme and continuously profanity (mostly racial and sexual) (by everyone) throughout. With hundreds of dollars in his pocket, Rob refuses to tip a parking attendant. ![]() When one of Rob’s friends hands him a thick wad of hundred-dollar-bills, he rents an expensive hotel room to spend the night with his girlfriend. Dahlia withholds evidence to clear Rob’s name in exchange for sexual favors. Rob’s father throws him out of the family house. The police are ineffectual idiots the Black police are trigger-happy idiots. Juanita, Rob’s girlfriend, steals money from him. The film treats crime (trying to be humorous) as if it were normal, with little or few consequences. Everyone blames the other for what goes wrong everyone victimized everyone else. MORALS, ISSUES & VALUES: Almost everyone in this film, adult and teen, Black and White, acts stupidly. A man kicks a dog (off-screen).ĬRIMES: Drug Use (U), Homosexual Rape (U), Parole Violations (P), Car Theft (P). One man hits another over the head with a bottle. JJ is wounded in the buttocks, but with little blood. Several shoot-outs between Rob and his friends and the police. VIOLENCE/SCARINESS: The violence in intended to be taken humorously, but for the most part, it isn’t funny. ![]() With the police in pursuit, he finally makes it to a church and the media to deliver the tape. Finally, Dahlia says she will trade him sexual favors for a telephone tape that proves he’s innocent and JJ is guilty. He tries to clear his name, going from friend to friend, all of whom either reject him or victimize him. When pulled over, JJ opens fire on the police and Rob runs for his life. Tone asks delinquent JJ to pick up Rob, which he does in a stolen car. His friend, Tone, who was to pick him up at the jail gates, picks ups a girl to have sex with her. Comedy (2000, R.) Released from prison after two convictions, Rob swears to go straight to avoid a mandatory 25-year sentence under California’s “Three Strikes” law for a third conviction. ![]() ![]() Well, when you consider the fact that after casting this, there are at most 12 more spells in your deck. While it doesn't seem like it does much, it guarantees drawing three of your nonland cards. While not a guarantee, it's enough incremental value and deck thinning to be worth it. Well, when you're running Eldrazi Titans, a Cultivator Colossus, and a one sided board reset in Aurora, this spell has a very high chance of massively affecting the board state. It gives an opponent a random chance at a spell for the cost of giving us two spells. The Technique is used as an unbalanced way to hit your spells. Used to maximize Valakut, ], and potential sac outlet lands, allowing you to cast Wanderer multiple times. It is also a good piece to have in case you were to deck yourself later on. The ceiling for this card is to play it on turn 1 and then have 8 mana to cast Wanderer on turn 2.ĭryad is a way to play extra lands as well as give you every land type for ].Ībundance helps with either hitting your spells or when you actually need to hit your lands, like when you have an Aesi in play to better maximize your draws. Manabond is your crazy ramp piece that is in to ramp early as well as to dump excess lands at the end step that may have been drawn off of Aesi or Kozilek triggers. Thank you Tom for sharing this story with us.Ĭheck back next Thursday for more Art in Focus.So, my version of Maelstrom Wanderer is very much in between a super-duper-two-card-I-win combo and a more traditional build. Tom also has all kinds of Original Art, Sketches, Prints, Artist Proofs, Books (Blood Rituals: The Art of Tom Baxa, Get Work as a Fantasy Artist) and Merchandise available at his website. You can get details and pre-order a playmat for $40 at his web store(prices will go up after this initial offering). Tom is currently taking pre-orders for an official MAELSTROM WANDERER PLAYMAT! This is a high quality playmat produced by UltraPro and only available through Tom. The original artwork for Maelstrom Wanderer was created traditionally and sold many years ago. And thanks to all the sites and communities that support fantasy art like OMA! ![]() I’m so grateful that players are enjoying Maelstrom Wanderer and the artwork I created for the card. My favorite parts of the painting are his fiery gut behind the rock-form ribcage, and his face with the star pattern and the floating rock shapes that stay suspended in the blue mana storm emanating from his neck and clavicle region. There’s a ton of energy swirling around him and in the background. I love the dramatic, almost cataclysmic nature of the Maelstrom Wanderer. When I do the actual painting, I mask off the figure first and fully paint the background, then I paint the figure. I like to design something cool and original, then give it some kind of drama, in both the way it’s moving and through color and light. I almost always focus on the main figure first. The sense of mass was important, and I wanted him to have a cool visage made up of layered rock plates and glowing from within. I also wanted to convey a vast amount of mana filling him up and surging forth from his body – showing the energy needed to move his massive rocky carcass. I wanted him to feel like a brooding, heavy juggernaut that just marched the barren plane forever. I didn’t end up using much reference for this particular painting, but rather relied on my imagination and familiarity with rock and muscular forms to convey a creature with powerful and weighty limbs. I chose to make him more of a solid exoskeletal creature with a core of energy instead of a energy based elemental. I was also struck by the idea of him being a creature, but composed of and exuding a lot of energy. One of the things that stood out and informed some of my creature design decisions was the fact that this was a steeply inclined rocky landscape, so I wanted the Wanderer to be sure-footed. Mood: A walking storm of quasi-living magic, purposeless and ceaseless It wanders the former Maelstrom's rim, into the wind, trailing blue plasma and licks of flame as it goes. Its body is composed of green veins and vascular structures, fire and rock, and ribbons of blue arcane energy. Show The Wanderer, a towering elemental creature borne of the Maelstrom. The Maelstrom is mostly gone now, but it remains a site of bizarre, flaring magic and strange winds. Location: A steeply inclined landscape, swept by a very strong windĪction: The Maelstrom was the point at which the five shards of the plane of Alara merged - a huge, roiling, crackling whirlpool of mana, aether, and magic. Color: Red, blue, and green legendary creature - one of a kind |
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