His ability to write is rather average. The underdeveloped characters are stereotypes and he uses excruciating detail to describe minutia which DOES NOT MATTER. Writing involves showing the TELLING details and having a strong sense of POV.
Nowadays, everyone with a computer thinks hes a writer!
My neighbor recently caught his house on fire and destroyed part of ours, too. Among the casualties of the fire department hoses were three computers (5 hard drives in all). When are damaged goods were being tossed in the dumpster, I grabbed the computers and had my kids take hammers to the hard drives (they loved that!)
By the way - the Macintoshes still booted and ran, but the PC did not!
In addition to selling you new equipment (and new contracts), the real reason behind the move to digital is that it allows the providers to cram more calls in during peak hours. They can packet-rob or bit-rob your signal (degrade quality) to provide more calling channels. They can fill gaps in your conversation with other conversations, etc.
With today's throwaway society, what's the point of getting a computer fixed? It's almost to the same point as getting a VCR, DVD player, or TV fixed. Just fill up the junkyard and buy another one at the local discount store.
If you click the link you listed and explore the idiotic accusations of mass population mind control you quickly discover just what quacks these people are. They believe that the government can modify the moods of crowds of people with some electromagnetic waves in Alaska.
People are complex bowls of chemicals! Any single simple "treatment" like this wouldn't do shit to mood unless it just gave everybody a gigantic headache, in which case the only mood-altering they could do was to piss everybody off!
If they could alter moods so easily, why is there ever civil unrest like marches, riots, etc.?
You must be his mother or something
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I just downloaded his 21 chapters and abandoned reading the first. His style is absolutely amateurish and if he didn't have what they call a "platform" to sell from (his columns), he'd never have gotten this tripe published.
Specifically, he has dire problems with POV (point of view). In the opening scene, the receptionist sees an incoming blonde as voluptuous and curvy - women DO NOT see other women this way! Only over-testosteroned males do. If you don't write believeable female characters you will only sell to teenage geeks/freaks.
Second, the constant use of passive prose does not draw the reader in. In the opening scene he spends paragraphs describing a woman falling down in the lobby. Now this could possibly be successful if not for phrases like "the immutable laws of physics kept pulling her over", etc that make the prose so stilted and bland.
If you check the in-flight rag, you'll find that the airlines don't allow passengers to use GPS receivers. I know this because I used to use mine to watch the flight path when I was totally bored. That was before they thought to disallow their use (they weren't yet common).
I am a Boeing employee who thought the whole idea was stupid when they first started Connexion. They deployed this whole ton of people for the project and ended up laying off 80% of them when they realized the airlines weren't interested - mainly because Boeing wants a huge cut of the profits. Last I heard, Boeing invested $400 million on this boondoggle. They were going to charge $30/hour for access and counted their profits by counting in-flight hours of planes in the US, ignoring the fact that most flight hours are commuter trips in the one-hour range where you can barely get your laptop out before the announcement that you have to turn it off comes on.
What a bunch of baloney. After my house burned down (due to neighbor's stupidity), all the old computer hardware formerly acting as door stops are hauled to the junkyard along with the kids' GI Joe's and Harry Potter crap. Does Hasbro or Disney have to pay up for their garbage?
A much more important initiative would be to tax the fast food industry for all the landfill fodder they produce for every kids' meal.
Intricate character development? Those were some of the most cardboard cutout plain vanilla boring characters I've ever seen - and so many of them! You must think NSync is a band of musical geniuses or that Burger King is gormet cooking, too.
Too many characters doing almost nothing. Notice that most characters weren't even named! They were just "that redhead" showing up and doing boring everyday stuff. No distinct characters (were there any blacks, asians, etc in the forties? - btw I am a white male), so you could barely tell people apart.
Okay, so the aliens are kind of cool. They only showed about seven seconds of aliens in the first hour of boring crap, so I turned it off.
I was VASTLY disappointed. So you want to make a miniseries - if you don't have DRAMA no is going to watch 20 hours!
Go to a costume shop and buy a rubber hand (pick your favorite monster). Wear it for the scan and any subsequent gym use. This solves your data collection problem, as you can discard this hand when your relationship with the gym ends.
On a related scary note. Many stores (Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc) are now using digital signature scanning for credit card purchases. How do you feel about them scanning your legal signature when you buy something and what stops them from printing this signature on a ton of credit slips?????
One of the reasons you can fry an egg on your P4 is because it's literally throwing away tons of power just trying to syncrhonize all the gates to the global clock.
Actually, you're quite wrong here. Most of the power in a CMOS device is burned up by state transition. Yes there is power spent on the clock (it is the fastest signal), however, the millions of flip-flops toggling swamp the clock power! Flip-flops only toggle when functions are being performed. Therefore, most of the power consumption is "useful" power.
Asynchronous designs generally resemble a complicated rat's nest of "thank you" notes being passed back and forth, especially if the task is not purely a straight line chain of operations.
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His ability to write is rather average. The underdeveloped characters are stereotypes and he uses excruciating detail to describe minutia which DOES NOT MATTER. Writing involves showing the TELLING details and having a strong sense of POV.
Nowadays, everyone with a computer thinks hes a writer!
My neighbor recently caught his house on fire and destroyed part of ours, too. Among the casualties of the fire department hoses were three computers (5 hard drives in all). When are damaged goods were being tossed in the dumpster, I grabbed the computers and had my kids take hammers to the hard drives (they loved that!)
By the way - the Macintoshes still booted and ran, but the PC did not!
In addition to selling you new equipment (and new contracts), the real reason behind the move to digital is that it allows the providers to cram more calls in during peak hours. They can packet-rob or bit-rob your signal (degrade quality) to provide more calling channels. They can fill gaps in your conversation with other conversations, etc.
If you eliminate all the electronic stuff, won't the wife be annoyed at the loss of her extensive vibrator collection?
With today's throwaway society, what's the point of getting a computer fixed? It's almost to the same point as getting a VCR, DVD player, or TV fixed. Just fill up the junkyard and buy another one at the local discount store.
If you click the link you listed and explore the idiotic accusations of mass population mind control you quickly discover just what quacks these people are. They believe that the government can modify the moods of crowds of people with some electromagnetic waves in Alaska.
People are complex bowls of chemicals! Any single simple "treatment" like this wouldn't do shit to mood unless it just gave everybody a gigantic headache, in which case the only mood-altering they could do was to piss everybody off!
If they could alter moods so easily, why is there ever civil unrest like marches, riots, etc.?
I just downloaded his 21 chapters and abandoned reading the first. His style is absolutely amateurish and if he didn't have what they call a "platform" to sell from (his columns), he'd never have gotten this tripe published.
Specifically, he has dire problems with POV (point of view). In the opening scene, the receptionist sees an incoming blonde as voluptuous and curvy - women DO NOT see other women this way! Only over-testosteroned males do. If you don't write believeable female characters you will only sell to teenage geeks/freaks.
Second, the constant use of passive prose does not draw the reader in. In the opening scene he spends paragraphs describing a woman falling down in the lobby. Now this could possibly be successful if not for phrases like "the immutable laws of physics kept pulling her over", etc that make the prose so stilted and bland.
This book is one step above comics.
Just another reason NOT to get a fancy phone with internet abilities - Phone Spam.
If you check the in-flight rag, you'll find that the airlines don't allow passengers to use GPS receivers. I know this because I used to use mine to watch the flight path when I was totally bored. That was before they thought to disallow their use (they weren't yet common).
I am a Boeing employee who thought the whole idea was stupid when they first started Connexion. They deployed this whole ton of people for the project and ended up laying off 80% of them when they realized the airlines weren't interested - mainly because Boeing wants a huge cut of the profits. Last I heard, Boeing invested $400 million on this boondoggle. They were going to charge $30/hour for access and counted their profits by counting in-flight hours of planes in the US, ignoring the fact that most flight hours are commuter trips in the one-hour range where you can barely get your laptop out before the announcement that you have to turn it off comes on.
What a bunch of baloney. After my house burned down (due to neighbor's stupidity), all the old computer hardware formerly acting as door stops are hauled to the junkyard along with the kids' GI Joe's and Harry Potter crap. Does Hasbro or Disney have to pay up for their garbage?
A much more important initiative would be to tax the fast food industry for all the landfill fodder they produce for every kids' meal.
Intricate character development? Those were some of the most cardboard cutout plain vanilla boring characters I've ever seen - and so many of them! You must think NSync is a band of musical geniuses or that Burger King is gormet cooking, too.
Too many characters doing almost nothing. Notice that most characters weren't even named! They were just "that redhead" showing up and doing boring everyday stuff. No distinct characters (were there any blacks, asians, etc in the forties? - btw I am a white male), so you could barely tell people apart. Okay, so the aliens are kind of cool. They only showed about seven seconds of aliens in the first hour of boring crap, so I turned it off. I was VASTLY disappointed. So you want to make a miniseries - if you don't have DRAMA no is going to watch 20 hours!
And as a bonus, all your friends can share your gym membership - you can loan them your hand or have them buy one like it.
Go to a costume shop and buy a rubber hand (pick your favorite monster). Wear it for the scan and any subsequent gym use. This solves your data collection problem, as you can discard this hand when your relationship with the gym ends. On a related scary note. Many stores (Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc) are now using digital signature scanning for credit card purchases. How do you feel about them scanning your legal signature when you buy something and what stops them from printing this signature on a ton of credit slips?????
Actually, you're quite wrong here. Most of the power in a CMOS device is burned up by state transition. Yes there is power spent on the clock (it is the fastest signal), however, the millions of flip-flops toggling swamp the clock power! Flip-flops only toggle when functions are being performed. Therefore, most of the power consumption is "useful" power. Asynchronous designs generally resemble a complicated rat's nest of "thank you" notes being passed back and forth, especially if the task is not purely a straight line chain of operations.