#and I started checking the various results that bordered on too high or too low

[nihil-ism]

Well. Not to be too excited before this happens more than once but -

Took magnesium before bed yesterday and... I slept through the night after falling asleep more easily, waking up as refreshed as I haven't in years. I don't feel sluggish, the usual feeling of needing to crawl back into bed is gone and I'm absolutely feeling capable to take on the day???

Will report back but if this is what was missing for a healthy life for me I will cry tears of joy.

#I went to so many doctors and had so much blood work done and everything came back great #I was getting desperate so a guy took to tiktok of all things after even google wasn't really helping #granted when I heard TAKE MAGNESIUM multiple times I also had the epiphany to grab the printout I requested from my endocrinologist #and I started checking the various results that bordered on too high or too low #or were actually in the slight high results etc #and voila. some of them according to google often require b12 and magnesium to stay checked #TLDR This might have been what was wrong and I am praying this will keep me more active

[armsdealing]

/ NUEVA RELIGIÓN.

there is always something left to love. when people ask, that is what they say. there’s always something left to love, and it’s because of that love that they do the things they do. what makes them kill. what makes them punish and desecrate the holy alongside the mundane. it is not hatred, not revulsion, not fear, but something else, much purer than all those things combined, what turns the gears of this barbarity: a conviction that cuts through diamond. a deeper knowledge about the world and the beings that live in it, than could be found anywhere else. a willingness, stripped of all pride, to use this knowledge crucially against transgressors, against liars, against evil itself -- without any kind of differentiation between men and gods.

                                                                   ***

nueva religión is a verse subservient to elements already established in the otherworld verse and the nulliverse. it’s basically an au of an au with strong magical realism and urban fantasy influences, as well as a background in mythopoeia and crime. theology and mythology are central themes of the verse, so talks about religion are bound to show up frequently. naturally, there will be general, verse-wise trigger and content warnings regarding: blasphemy, sacrilege, and violence. there will be mentions of unsavory topics in this post like gang violence/crime, abuse and drugs, so it is best to stop reading from this point onward if mere mentions of these topics trigger you. mental health comes first, always. of course, all specific disturbances will be tagged in a post by post basis.

continue if you wish to read more about this verse, and the characters involved in it.

FUNDAMENTALS.

as prev. mentioned, this is an au of an au. it centers around the well-known (as far as my blog is concerned, at least) reyes family and their efforts running a gang that also happens to have unorthodox religious beliefs. in this verse, the reyes never went to new york between 1970 and 1990. instead, they decided to settle completely in florida in a neighborhood of miami-dade county called carrion. there, they would gain a foothold by waging war on neighborhood gangs until they achieved complete control of carrion. now the area is the base of operations for everything they do.

the characterizations in this verse are drastically different due to: 1. the different setting 2. the different background 3. the different tone -- and while characters like marcelo still retain several core characteristics, it’s best to assume the characters will not behave in the exact same way as they do in their canon verses, and they will not respond the same. it might be jarring. it’s meant to be jarring, as this verse intends to explore a ‘what if’ type of scenario for the reyes family if they still decided to be active in the criminal world.

as it’s been hinted, the reyes have an alternative religion, complete with a central deity and minor gods. this religion is completely fictional, as are their ritual practices, and they are not meant to be similar to any real life religion or belief system.  

the neighborhood of carrion is fictional too, and while certain historical elements might be taken directly from real life, i don’t mean to make accurate depictions of them (this especially concerns the cocaine boom of the 80s and colombia’s la violencia between the 40s and 50s). i also don’t plan to use any real life gangs/criminals in this verse, and i won’t acknowledge their existence. 

the verse sways between urban fantasy and magical realism. while the magic is very much real, the extent of it will be unfamiliar to most people, and a lot of things will be deliberately vague. things in carrion work a particular way, people work a certain way, and it’s not the same for other parts of miami. 

LOS DISCÍPULOS.

known by a variety of names (los dorados, los reales, la justicia, la realeza, or the kings of miami) los discipulos de la nueva religión is the gang the reyes run. consisting primarily of werecats and humans of magical predisposition, they’re infamous in miami for their extremely violent ways and their vicious grip on carrion. 

though during the first decade they were focused on drug distribution (and were, for several years, in full control of the colombia-caribbean islands-usa cocaine pipeline), over time they have downsized their drug operation.

nowadays, the kings manage protection rackets for businesses outside of carrion, simultaneously protecting their home neighborhood from the influence of other gangs -- completely for free. they also perform armed robbery and theft outside of miami and hijack trucks. 

perhaps the thing they are most known for, however, is their vigilantism. notably anti-cop, the kings have taken it upon themselves to impart justice in their neighborhood and surrounding areas. this effort, unlike the protection rackets, is completely free of cost. essentially, they will go after those they consider to have evaded justice: murderers, abusers, p*dophiles, and rapists. they will also make a point to go after corrupted authority figures in particular: police officers, priests, and the occasional politician. as a result, they have been linked to various assassinations, but nothing has ever been proven as of right now.

the kings also pump a lot of money into carrion and surrounding areas. their businesses include, but are not limited to: a tattoo parlor, a hair salon, a barbershop, and a bar. they also run a private shelter and organize many activities for the benefit of carrion’s citizens. because of this, they’re pretty beloved within their community and outside of it. the popular consensus seems to be that if you need help and ask the kings for it, you’re guaranteed to receive it. 

EL CULTO / THE BELIEFS.

though the gang came to be around the 80s officially, el culto has been going on for much longer, evolving steadily into what it is today. originally started in colombia, it centers around one main figure: la Justicia, a goddess thought to be responsible for keeping balance in the universe by killing what needs to be killed and subsequently consuming it -- something for which she was given the title of Divine Devorer (or Divina Devoradora). 

la justicia is the guiding figure of their lives, and believers kill for her (human sacrifices and offering dead bodies being quite common). she’s considered the agent of retribution, above all other gods and above all other things.

the worship maintains that all other gods might as well exist, but they too have to follow the laws of the universe, and if they break them, then they too will be consumed by la Justicia. in that way, the goddess acts as a check/balance for other pantheons. and they don’t necessarily have to like that (many, in fact, hate her) but there’s nothing they can do about it. 

the culto is notably anti-catholic/anti-christian god, and in a certain way started as a direct response to the forced christianization of south america that happened during colonial times. missionaries were often killed around this time, and many churches were destroyed. because of this tightly knit history with catholicism, it’s not rare to see worshippers of La Justicia “appropiating” catholic imagery in blatant and mocking ways. 

el culto’s other deities are La Muerte and La Locura, representing respectively the two other laws of the universe. if la Justicia is the agent of order, La Locura is the agent of disorder, and La Muerte (death) is the only certainty in the whole universe. despite their massive power, the are considered minor in the cult -- they’re seen as two natural influences that prefer not to directly involve themselves in the world, unlike La Justicia, which must be constantly pursued and taken care of.

CARRION, MIAMI.

bordered with allapattah to the west, wynwood to the east, and liberty city to the north, carrion is a neighborhood in miami with a large latino population that represents about 70% of its makeup. predominated by dominicans, puerto ricans and cubans as well as colombians and venezuelans, it’s primarily a low to working class neighborhood with a big textiles market. it’s also well known for it’s food distribution centers and mercados, which a wide variety of tropical fruits.

apart from all this, it happens to be the homebase of the kings, and where much of the action takes place. carrion has a reputation for being a strange neighborhood, where weird things often take place and “nobody notices”. despite being somewhat quiet, it boasts an alarmingly high number of unsolved disappearance cases, only rivalled by the number of unsolved murder cases. it was pretty active during the cocaine boon of the 80s and it’s rumored there’s 20 tons of cocaine hidden somewhere from those times in the neighborhood. as far fetched as that sounds, in 2016 someone found 100k worth of jewelry hidden inside their kitchen wall during a house renovation, so -- let’s just say nothing is out of the question when it comes to carrion. 

CHARACTERS INVOLVED WITH THE VERSE.

MARCELO REYES

ALBA REYES

SAUL BAUTISTA

ELIÁN VALENCIANO

CAMILA VALENCIANO

JOAQUÍN

LEON ROMERO

#worldbuilding. #( nueva religión. ) #* nueva religion. #vb. #get ready for many posts like this :V jk they'll take a while #this took a while #but it was fun! #i can't stop thinking about this verse

[joeynation]

COVID-22: A short story

March 26, 2022. Two years ago we were told the country was going into lockdown for 4 weeks, to stick with our “bubble”, limit our outdoor exercise & fresh air, and only go on essential grocery trips. The government hatched an ambitious set of finance packages to combat the economic impact and to protect those who had lost their jobs. That’s what we were told.

The expectation was that after a month we would start to see the containment of the highly contagious virus that was infecting the world. But we didn’t.

Despite the imposed quarantine and strict rules, enforced by both police and military, people continued to defy the law, and began to act increasingly unusually. We at first rolled our eyes. We knew there’d be shenanigans from the usual hooligans and people who think the rules don’t apply, but then things got weird. 

A few weeks into the quarantine I was out for a quick walk around the waterfront by my house, careful to uphold the 2m separation rule.  A disheveled man was out running, but not in the relaxed style of a jogger, he was dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt, but his beard and hair were unkept and he was shoeless. He looked manic and frightened as if there were someone chasing after him with a knife. As he ran toward me I realised his path was leading directly to me, and his eyes were set on me as well. To avoid the collision I quickly stepped to the right, separating us with a bench seat bolted to the ground. The man, with his eyes still fixed on me, altered his path to sprint directly toward me.

He ran directly into the bench seat at full running speed, as if he hadn’t even seen it, smashed his legs into the wood and his whole body flipped over, smacking his head into the concrete with a walnut-crunching smash and lay there deathly still, his head oozing. I screamed, yelled out for help and  a passerby said they were calling 111. I could sense the twitching of curtains by the parade alongside the waterfront, apartment buildings suddenly animated as curious faces peered down from their glass barriers, morphing into horrified, clawed expressions.

A small collection of pedestrians stopped horrified, some even took photos on their phones. Eventually an ambulance arrived, sirens blaring and with a loudspeaker announcing for everyone to stay well clear. Two workers in white hazmat suits emerged and hurriedly arrived to size up the lifeless, gruesome scene that lay sprawled on the concrete before us. After checking his pulse they instructed everyone to leave, I backed away down the path and curiously peered back to observe the morbid placement of the body into a black body bag, zip it up and load it into the ambulance. A short while later a fire engine arrived to blast the blood away with high powered hoses, leaving the scene bordered with  “do not enter” hazard tape. 

I recounted what had happened to my friends and colleagues via video calls and we all spoke about it in similar fashion. He was a “mad man”, someone who’s truly “lost his marbles” what with the restrictions of self-isolation and fear of viral infection. But this wasn’t a one off. 

There began to emerge numerous reports on social media of people purposely running into others, body slamming them, spitting on them, getting as close as possible to people to lick, cough on, sneeze on and even bite them. “Absolute vile mongrels” we called them. “Bring back the death sentence!” faceless online commentators called for. 

One day a breaking news story popped up about a police station that had to close down suddenly due to a mass COVID-19 outbreak. It turned out to have been caused by an infected policeman spitting in the station’s communal coffee machine’s water supply. Finally we were learning that the infected had begun to purposefully spread the virus. What we learned, too late however, was that the virus affected people’s brains and in some ways controlled how they acted.  It forced their impulses and made it their living drive to infect others.

Then everything changed. Suddenly being infected was a death wish and we couldn’t take any chances. The military began to round up the infected and take them to designated, remote quarantine zones, to “guarantee isolation and abidance.” However, no one ever seemed to return from then. 

The nation was ordered to stay at home at all times, essential service workers were provided accommodation on premises. Food packages were dropped on doorsteps; weird collections of supermarket leftovers - box soup, crackers, canned soup and vegetables, napkins, vegetable oil, flour. Social media was abuzz with horrifying, unbelievable stories of medical staff forced to sleep in onsite garages, low-quality tents erected in car parks and to work in shifts for months without days off. Soon enough we stopped hearing almost anything from the media or social media at all. The government seemed to want to curb all negative chatter and to quell rumours of what was really going on and with how deeply uncontained the virus actually was, as if we couldn't tell.

Eventually these packages stopped arriving and shortly after, things became well and truly feral. The looting began. Neighbors holed up in their homes suddenly had to fend off unwanted guests and there were blood-curdling shrieks on the streets, a clear-cut sign peaceful solutions weren’t being met.. At this point I became really scared. It felt like the end of days and like it wouldn’t be too long until someone would arrive at my doorstep, desperate, hungry and willing to do what it takes to survive.

Fortunately I live in a 3 story apartment building with a gated entrance, a backdoor to the garden, and with each floor as its own apartment. Living on the second floor I was used to hearing noises from above and below, but I hadn’t heard any movements or noise in the stairwell for a long time. I dared not check on them in person, and they hadn’t responded to my messages or phone calls. As far as I knew, I was alone in the building. People had definitely tried to break in, but we had long ago locked the garage doors and barricaded them with additional furniture. 

I began to keep the lights off at night so no one would know I was home, and I kept the curtains drawn during the day so no one could see my movement. Eventually the electricity stopped running, and I had to very conservatively use my small camping stove to heat meals. I was running out of supplies - my canned goods were littling down to rations of mouthfuls a day and I could feel my body degrading as a result. Less strength, more tired, my brain less snappy. I knew I needed to leave the house and get supplies, but I was terrified of coming across somebody else, of infection, and of what I might find inside quiet homes. 

After a few days of planning, I gingerly emerged from my building in a make-shift hazmat suit consisting of various torn pieces of plastic, sunglasses, torn material and kitchen gloves taped to my sleeves. I’d planned to pilfer from my neighbors’ houses, and I had a chopping knife at the ready - not that I really knew what I’d do with it should the moment arise. Slash? Stab? Wave wildly in hopes of threatening? I knew nothing would stop a late-stage infected from charging at me with all their might no matter what I did, so this was definitely a last resort.

The first two houses I checked out had broken locks and had already been well pillaged. It occurred to me I need not bother searching the homes close to the main roads. Therefore I began tip-toeing through backyards, jumping over fences and clambering past spiky bushes in search of promising resupply potential. I eventually found a 2-story house that looked untouched, and was certainly quiet, my summations from my peering through windows and cautious ear-pressing against walls.

With futility I tried the front door to confirm it was locked, which was actually a really promising sign - maybe this place hadn’t been raided! I ventured around the house and tried all the windows, all firmly shut, and the backdoor was firmly locked also. There was only one thing for it I thought, hurling a decorative garden rock painted as a frog through a window. The shattering glass caused an enormous racket, as did the rock hitting a wooden floor inside, and the tinkling sound of glass falling both inside and out cascaded for a deeply unnecessarily drawn out moment. I kept my distance for a good five-to-ten minutes, keeping well out of sight behind a hedge. I pondered going home and returning in a few days time, but the prospect of re-adorning my protective wear and suffering more days without a proper meal was too much to bear.

Pushing the remaining jagged glass edges inwards, onto the floor, I scampered up onto the window ledge and ungracefully plonked myself inside, careful not to put my hands down so as not to cut my gloves or my hands. The house was plush and tidy, adorned with floor length drapes, and prim and proper wooden furniture. I realized I was in what had been an office, but with a thick coating of dust it’d clearly been out of action for quite some time. I began searching. The pantry was fairly barren, and the drawers were empty and I was quickly losing hope. I began to search more frantically, and once the kitchen search proved fruitless other than a packet of spiral pasta and a mostly used bottle of soy sauce, I headed to other rooms. Swinging open cabinets, ripping open drawers and pulling the lids off of containers. 

I charged upstairs and started going through the bedrooms, checking under the bed, raiding en-suite medicine cabinets, pulling open closets. I threw open the master bedroom door in my futile search and got the fright of my life - an old woman lay on the bed, wearing a white nightgown, her tiny emaciated body barely providing form to the lengths of fabric swamping her. Her wide, hollow eyes were staring at me in shock - at first I thought she was dead, but I realized she was blinking and trying to speak. Her eyes were darting from me to her bedside table and back again, and I figured she was wanting me to get her some water to fill the empty glass beside her. I grabbed the glass and took it to the en-suite bathroom, examining my ridiculous appearance in the dusty mirror - sunglasses, a face mask constructed from torn pieces of fabric, a haphazard head wrap made from pieces of plastic and glad-wrap. I drank the water from the tap, careful not to touch the tap with my mouth, before filling up the glass and kneeling beside the bed to hand it to the woman. She just looked at me, a pained expression in her eyes - she was clearly very near death, whether from the virus, malnutrition, dehydration or just old age, I couldn’t tell. Feeling terrible, I placed the glass on her bedside table, apologized, and left, closing the door behind me. As I sneaked home through the neighborhood’s properties I felt such an overwhelming sense of sadness. Despair for the state of the world, and guilt for my own actions in not staying by this woman’s side for what surely must have been her final days. Hell, they’ll probably be my final days.

Over the next few days I attempted a few more loots but they were each unsuccessful, my neighborhood had been well and truly plundered. At best, my rations would last me the rest of the week and from there I’d be left with running taps as a food source. I made a decision simply to have one last “real” meal, and I soaked all my pasta to soften it, tipped the remainder of my canned tomatoes into a bowl and combined them with my soy sauce. A feast, which I scoffed in one glorious swoop. It wasn’t an enormous meal, but given the meager portions to which I was now accustomed it was satisfying. Immediately I doubted and questioned my own decision, but deep down I knew further rationing was prolonging the inevitable.

Today is 2 years to the day since the COVID-19 lock down began. Those “four weeks” we could barely bring ourselves to commit to, the rules being flouted on the first day. Groups of people resting on park benches, chatting, leaving and a new group of people replacing them shortly after, placing their hands on the bench as the people before them did, and the people after. We didn’t grapple with the immensity of the situation, and for that we fell.

It’s been nearly two weeks since my last supper and I’m bed bound, I feel drained, weak and tired. My bathroom is only around five metres from my bed but to get myself there to fill up my water bottle this morning left me dizzy and barely able to keep down the water I managed to drink. I feel utterly spent and completely on my last legs. I recall a line from The Fellowship of the Ring, “like butter scraped over too much bread.” That’s how I feel. I know this is just about it, I haven’t heard a sound other than the wind and rain for nearly a week. I guess this is the price we pay, the great universal decider, a disease spread by the rich flying around the world killed millions of the poorest first. Holed up in their mansions with security guards and enormous resources stockpiled, they thought that their greed wouldn’t come back to bite them, and it only prolonged their inevitable fate. 

As for me, I’m now the striking resemblance of the old woman I encountered in the neighborhood house I tried to loot. In the fetal position on the floor by my bed, I’m so hungry, my vision is blurred, my stomach is cramping, my head is pounding. I can see the shadow of birds on the windowsill outside, their shadows only through the newspaper covered windows. “Quoth the Raven, nevermore.”

[componentplanet]

How to Boost Your Older Graphics Card’s Performance

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended economic activity around the globe and made it rather difficult to plan a PC upgrade. With tens of millions of people recently out of work and everyone stuck at home, boosting the performance of the hardware you’ve got on hand suddenly became a lot more interesting.

Before we kick-off, a few caveats are in order. First, the tweaks we’ll explore, even taken in aggregate, will certainly help but are unlikely to work miracles. Performance tuning can improve frame rates and turn a game that’s chugging in places into one that runs noticeably and meaningfully better, but there’s no way to turn an HD 7970 or GeForce GTX 680 into a Radeon 5700 XT or RTX 2080. Second, because every game is different, some of these tips may be more or less effective depending on the title.

Two miscellaneous tips before we start: First, always make certain you are playing games in fullscreen mode, not windowed, and not borderless (windowed mode, without a visible border). Windowed mode is slower than fullscreen, in virtually every title, because your GPU is drawing both your desktop and the game itself at the same time. Windows 10 has cut the gap dramatically, and not every game offers a fullscreen mode, but you should always test the option if it’s available.

Second, make sure you’ve dusted both your GPU and CPU. While unlikely to be a major slowdown cause, it’s far from impossible for a GPU’s performance to drop because the card is throttling under load. Dust is an excellent insulator and if you’ve got an older card, you’ve got no performance to spare in the first place.

Game-Specific Optimization

The first thing we recommend doing to squeeze a little performance out of an aging card is to experiment with game settings themselves. While most reviewers and gamers test titles according to presets (Low, Medium, High, etc), this is a practical time-saving necessity for the former and a matter of convenience for the latter.

Gamers generally know that certain features explicitly tied to AMD or NV GPUs (think GameWorks) can incur heavy performance penalties on other architectures, but the same can be true for other features as well. It’s not unusual for a game’s implementation of ambient occlusion, tessellation, or antialiasing to hit one company’s GPU harder than another, and this can even vary depending on GPU family. Yes, simply lowering game settings or resolution can improve frame rate, but toggling specific features can get you nearly the same results for a smaller reduction in performance. In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, turning on MSAA has a phenomenal performance impact, for example — much more than you’d typically expect.

The slideshow below shows the impact of different detail levels in the 2014 Shadow of Mordor, with the optional HD texture pack installed. You can see differences here, but they’re subtle. Medium detail definitely doesn’t pack as much eye candy as Ultra, but it still presents an attractive-looking and engaging game. Even turning off features like ambient occlusion or disabling tessellation doesn’t hurt the visual appeal much. Different games have different “break” points, some look dramatically different at Medium compared to High, while others “break” at Medium versus Low. Oftentimes the benefits of “Very High” or “Ultra” are quite small compared with their performance hit.

Don’t be afraid to climb into the Advanced Options and start changing various sliders. Because different GPUs take different performance hits from different options, you may need to do a little detective work, but it’s not unusual to boost frame rates by 5-10 percent just from small tweaks.

If you need a tool for checking performance in DX11 and earlier titles, FRAPS is still a good choice. (DX12 performance monitoring is more complicated and a bit beyond the scope of this article). It’s also a good idea to use presets as rough targets. If you know a game runs acceptably fast on “Low” and too slowly on “Medium,” don’t be afraid to use “Low” as a starting point for tweaking features upwards. You may find there’s more eye candy available to you than you initially thought. Treat the situation like a buffet dinner — if you don’t see much difference between “Medium” and “High” textures in a title, check to see if dropping to Medium gives you enough headroom to turn up a setting you do care about. You may find that expensive features add relatively little to the game, giving you space to enable other visual improvements you want.

Running at a lower resolution is also a useful way to spot-check performance improvements, though this is title-specific. First-person shooters tend to scale better with resolution changes than a game like Civilization VI.

Driver Tweaks

Once upon a time (the late 1990s), it wasn’t uncommon for AMD and Nvidia to drop drivers that would improve game performance by 10-20 percent, even in older titles. Those days are mostly gone, provided you aren’t installing a launch-day update for a new game. But there are still a few ways you can tweak driver panel settings to squeeze out a little more performance.

On Nvidia cards (AMD has an analogous option in its own driver settings), you can set texture filter quality to “High Performance” as opposed to the default “Quality” option, force Ambient Occlusion on or off (if applicable), and force anisotropic texture filtering off.

Tweaking image quality in-driver won’t gain you a ton of performance, but it should improve things by a few percent. It’s also useful to check, to make sure you haven’t used global settings for one title and then forgotten to change them for another.

Check for Online Tweaks and Unofficial Patches

This one, again, is highly game-dependent. Some games don’t support modding or have small user communities. But in some cases, end-users take it on themselves to create patches that fix various aspects of a title, including issues that impact performance. Games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 have often received unofficial patches that can boost performance or optimize game textures for systems with low RAM.

Overclock Your GPU (Desktop Only)

We’re only touching on the topic here, not diving into it, but overclocking your GPU is typically good for a few percentage points of performance at the very least. Again, your results are going to vary based on which card you have and how aggressively the manufacturer tuned it beforehand. Tools like MSI Afterburner can be used to overclock most GPUs.

What might you get as a result? 5-10 percent would be a reasonable expectation depending on the card.

Note: Everything written here applies to desktop GPUs. ExtremeTech does not recommend attempting to overclock a laptop GPU.

If you are planning to test a GPU overclock, we recommend small tweaks (no more than a 5 percent increase to memory or GPU clock at any one time) and slow going. Stay away from adjusting your GPU’s voltage until you’ve researched the topic and the acceptable range of your card, and don’t tell Afterburner to automatically apply settings at boot until you’ve confirmed the settings you actually want.

Expect this process to lead to a lot of reboots and/or lockups if your goal is to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your card — you’ll have to do some testing to find out where the right breakpoints actually are, and it’s entirely possible to have ten games that run rock-solid on a GPU at one clock, but an 11th title that won’t run at anything but stock speeds. Such is the nature of this metaphorical beast.

If you aren’t overclocking by pushing voltages higher, the chances of damaging the card are fairly small, though we recommend you make sure the fans are dusted before you start pushing things. Most GPUs can typically handle a 5-10 percent overclock without complaint.

Adding It All Up

None of these solutions are going to work if you’re trying to coax more life out of a 10-year-old card, but they can measurably improve your overall performance. If you can tweak game settings for a 7 percent boost, pick up a 7 percent overclock, and tweak driver settings for a further 3 percent, you’ve got a 17 percent overall performance improvement. In a game struggling to hit 30fps (let’s call it 28fps for fun), a 1.17x improvement gets you up to 33fps. That’s not a ton, no — but the corresponding impact of each additional FPS is larger the lower your frame rate is. The perceived difference between 28 and 33fps is much larger than the gap between 60 and 65fps, even though both are 5fps faster than the other.

And of course, these are conservative estimates. In certain titles and particularly if unofficial performance-enhancing patches are available, you might see significantly larger gains, especially if you’re already bumping up against the VRAM limit of your current GPU. Resolution cuts can help a lot in this case — don’t be afraid to drop to lower resolutions if you’re seeing heavy stuttering, especially if you have an older or lower-end card with a limited amount of memory. It’s sometimes possible to write unofficial config files that make a game playable by lowering detail levels below what the developer intended. I had several WoW-playing friends whose graphics I “detuned” in this fashion, allowing them to raid on laptops that otherwise couldn’t handle the job. This was years ago, so I don’t know if the same hooks are still in the game, but there can be real value in this kind of optimization.

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[savvystories]

I’ve never been much of a “year in review“ guy. I just don’t care for those trite summaries that are supposed to be full of lessons!

But every few years or so I find myself doing one…

2019 was a very interesting year, as all years really are.

It had big highs and big lows.

I was able to write three complete full length novels this year (a completely new 3-book series, 83k, 65k, and 80k – and in an entirely new subgenre for me) and I didn’t even start writing it until the end of February! How? I set deadlines and goals and I met them. The Gamma Sequence is on track to be my most successful book ever, far far FAR outpacing anything I’ve done before.

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I also edited and compiled another very successful collection of short horror stories for the annual horror anthology, also our best ever, giving a higher profile to a lot of people in the process (some are going to be BIG, gang), as well as writing more than 12 new short horror stories for my own private anthology horror series I’ll be releasing in the next few months. Oh, and I successfully ran four Young Authors Clubs after school for gradeschool children. (That’ll keep you busy.)

I became a USA today best-selling author.

And got ripped off by a marketer – the @sshole and thief, Wid Bastian.

I learned a lot more about marketing (some good, some bad, obviously), which I think I say every year and probably will keep saying every year because I think every year it’s going to be true.

I said goodbye to some friends who I didn’t want to say goodbye to…

and I embraced some friends who wanted to move forward with me. What choice do you really have, after all? You can’t make somebody be your friend. When I look back on all the different people I have worked with in this business (or any other business for that matter), it’s all seems very transitory. I find people, I work with them for a while, and then for various reasons we go our separate ways. Sometimes they quit writing; sometimes they find me impossible to keep working with. (Hey, I’m not perfect.) Sometimes it’s something else.

I wish that wasn’t the case, but it seems this business is that way – transitory – and I have to be okay with that. I miss the people I used to work with, joke with, goof off with, get ideas from, give ideas to, get help from and give help to, but I had my best year ever as an author of this year and really hit a new level in the second half of this year (more on that in a second), so how am I going to complain?

I’m always aiming higher and

I do my best not to let the backward steps – however they come about – bring me down or hurt me too much.

Some losses I incurred in 2019 hurt – a lot. Some of those losses will hurt forever AND I HOPE THEY DO. I don’t want to forget the people who were with me, who helped me get this far. It will always hurt that some aren’t there anymore. I don’t want to forget that I got ripped off, not because the thief gets to live in my head; he doesn’t. I name him to mess with him, not to show I’m wounded. I want to remember what happened because I need to be smarter – for me and for others I can help.

There are GOING to be mistakes. There are GOING to be miscalculations.

There are going to be things that we wish hadn’t happened and which were preventable if we just weren’t so… human and vulnerable and needy and wanting.

But even though I occasionally get down about what I’m doing, it doesn’t last.

I don’t let it last.

That’s what’s amazing about me and that’s what keeps me moving forward.

I had a setback in 2019 (as we all do to varying degrees), and while I was struggling through that, along came an opportunity to change gears and write a second medical thriller book with a very talented group of bestselling authors. So I (eventually) took it – and ended up a USA Today bestselling author as a result. Maybe that would have happened anyway, but it DID happen because I said yes to the opportunity AND because I couldn’t just pick up and start writing the other series. I needed that break, so I switched gears – and then I threw myself into it. Rogue Elements, book 2 in The Gamma Sequence series, was a lot of fun to write; book 3, Terminal Sequence, was even more fun. But writing Rogue helped me move on, and it showed me how to fix what I need to fix so I could write the other series if I wanted to go back to it. (I’m not sure I do; I don’t need to. And I’ve enjoyed the stretching my writerly muscles into new realms…)

Those who chose not to continue on with me, I wish them well. I really do! It gives me no pride or satisfaction to quietly check in on them and not see them doing well.

I want to know everybody’s doing all right.

If they quit writing, I wish they’d start again. If they put a book out, I wish I’d have been allowed to help, but I want it to be successful without my involvement because I was just a cheerleader anyway; they always did the work. They deserve their success, and I want them to have it. (And I’ll be happily jealous of it, too.)

I don’t know what 2020 holds.

None of us do.

But it seems somehow or other I find a way to make my book writing thing a little better and sometimes a lot better.

I’ll never know if the people I leaned on held me back or kept me from sliding further than I would have if I wasn’t leaning on them.

They will never know, either.

I choose to say they helped a lot and my successes are partly theirs. I smile for having known them.

I guess, in the end, let’s all just think fondly of old friends. Like the song says, auld lang syne. Remember everybody fondly; they’re not gonna be around forever. Forgive and forget. Reach out and say hi. Send a letter. And if someone from your past reaches out after six months or a year or sixteen years or however long, we can all let bygones be bygones and be old friends again just like we used to be.

And I equally know a few will never reach out; these are authors. They don’t do the reaching out thing. It’s not in their DNA. I feel I’m not supposed to reach out to a few, that they want me gone, but I don’t want anybody gone, so that lack of reaching out will be a memory of sad regret and possibly the empty feeling of missed opportunity to know again what once was. I think I’ve reached out a lot, sometimes to have my hand ignored and sometimes to feel it wasn’t welcome. I’ll never know if I’ve reached out enough, but I know for some people nothing is ever enough.

For those who keep plowing forward with me, I’ll try to make it worth your while.

CHEER ON 2020 AND EVEN MORE SUCCESS!

The year in review: onward to 2020! I’ve never been much of a “year in review“ guy. I just don’t care for those trite summaries that are supposed to be full of lessons!

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The following is the first installment of my attempt to consolidate my journal notes from last year (2107)  into something of a coherent story.  It was a year of solitude, wandering, and a fair amount of reading.  My memories of each phase of the year, each place I found myself in, are strongly associated with, among other things, what I was reading at the time.  As a result, what follows is part journal, part book review.  Enjoy?

Part One – Winter

The new year started off with another long, lonely drive across the high plains from my brother’s house in Kansas City to my apartment near the boundary between Denver and Aurora.  I was in the middle of my first and only year teaching at an alternative[1] high school located out near the airport where the ever-expanding metropolis currently meets the prairie.  Having never had to really commute to work, I had tried in the fall to find a studio apartment within comfortable biking distance to the school.  There weren’t a ton of choices for studios and I ended up in one of those new, over-priced apartment complexes chock full of frivolous amenities and marketed with empty, superficial references to the unique “community feel”[2].  It was essentially a fancy dorm for the dog-owning medical students attending CU’s med school next door.

The complex was in an interesting corner of the Denver area,  bordered on the north and east with the parallel lines of Sand Creek, the new light rail R-Line, and highways 70 and 225 respectively (see map below).  To the west and south was old Aurora and the massive medical campus.   The surrounding neighborhoods were extremely diverse with recent immigrants from all over the world and many families that had been pushed out of the gentrifying city center of Denver.  At first, I thought I was in a kind of food desert, with fast food, Walmart, and a busted King Soopers being the main options, until I discovered all of the small taquerias, Ethiopian restaurants, Vietnamese pho spots, etc.

The far northeast Denver metro area

I was in a world of such interesting juxtapositions.  I could go for a walk along the creek and see beavers, foxes, coyotes, and countless waterfowl on my right and a massive natural gas depot, immigration detention center, and women’s prison on my left.  There were pleasant creek-side bike paths and a shiny new light rail right next to the concrete clusterf*** of the interstates and the east end of Colfax with all of its motels, pawn shops, and check-to-cash operations.   Near the school, taking up large swaths of land were huge, low-slung warehouse/distribution facilities and treeless neighborhoods of cookie-cutter houses while right across the street were rustic looking ranches with old stately cottonwoods, weathered barns, and horses.  On my way to work, I could see the sunrise in the east reflecting off the snow-capped peaks of the Rockies to the west, giving them a pinkish-orange hue, then upon arriving at school, get hit in the face with wind-blown tumbleweeds, parking-lot trash, and dust blown from the nearby field in the initial stages of becoming a new suburban development.

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Early on, when not at school and while it was still too cold to do anything outside other than the occasional brisk stroll to the creek or masochistic bike commute to work, I spent a good deal of time holed up in my high rent, thrift store furnished apartment.  It was that dark, hand-wringing time of the year with 45’s inauguration looming at the end of the month.  Personally, I was still reeling from an abrupt end to a long relationship, had few friends in all of Denver much less out in Aurora, and was struggling to keep my head up after long, stressful days at school.  As all teachers know, there is a unique and intense exhaustion that results from the constant interpersonal interactions and frenetic pace of a day working with large numbers of reluctant young people, especially in the first year at a school where most of those young people have long been screwed by the educational system and have “a lot on their plate” to begin with.  This was my third first year at a school in the past four years (as well as the fourth city – long story) and I was the physics and chemistry teacher of many students who were still working on their basic math skills. [3]

I often coped by coming home in a zombie-like trance, withdrawing first into my apartment and then into another time and place via bluetooth headphones and a good audiobook.   I was too mentally exhausted to actually read but didn’t want to descend any further into the mindless world of Netflix-dependence, so I moped around, trying to busy my hands with various bike projects while consuming prodigious amounts of spoken word.  In January, Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel, Flight Behavior, provided the perfect balance of hope and escape that I needed after days spent surrounded by all manner of bewildering, depressing nonsense whether it was the new president on the radio, smartphone-addicted students snapchatting with each other across the classroom, disconnected and dehumanizing district bureaucrats threatening students, or irrational motorists in the dystopian rush-hour traffic flowing through industrial exurbia.

Flight Behavior is a beautiful story of a young mother in a rural Appalachian community grappling with the intersection of personal/familial struggles and the unfamiliar, existential threat of climate change.   In short, she stumbles upon a population of monarch butterflies overwintering on a mountainside on her in-law’s land instead of continuing their normal migration to a mountain in the Mexican state of Michoacan.  Learning about and pondering the monarch butterfly’s incredible multi-generational migration is reason enough to read this book.

The narrative weaves in hyper-relevant issues like the cultural conflict between rural communities (poverty, religion, etc.) and coastal/academic elitism, and the difficulty in making sense of climate change in such a complex and interconnected world.  Human migration, along with that of butterflies, is also woven into the story with a family from a town near the monarchs’ normal roost in Michoacan coming in search of work, as well as a Caribbean-born, Harvard-educated, African-American scientist[4] who sets up a temporary laboratory to investigate the anomalous butterfly behavior.

I obviously identified with the unfulfilled, depressed, loner-with-a-broken-relationship status of the main character, Dellarobia, as well as with the frustrating, desperate struggle of the scientist, Dr. Ovid Byron, to connect with and communicate science to the people around him.  Dellarobia’s relationship with her young son also reminded me of my relationship with my mother when I was growing up.  She is loving, selfless, and caring while overburdened with responsibility but, more significantly, is very much an advocate and ally of her budding-scientist son.  The style and voice of the narrator makes a big difference in whether I can sustain attention to an audiobook.  The fact that Kingsolver, who is herself from a rural Appalachian community, is the narrator definitely helps lend authenticity in more ways that just getting the characters’ accents right.  Her calm and somewhat gloomy tone provided the perfect accompaniment to my shuffling walks around my apartment.

I’m extremely picky with the little fiction I read, and was not disappointed with this choice. It’s a great story for our time.  In the post-election search for blame, understanding, and/or absolution, many people seemed to be talking about Hillbilly Elegy [5] by J.D. Vance, but I thought this book should have resurged to prominence the way Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark from 2004 is doing right now.  One of the “take-home” messages of the book, and of my experience as a teacher, is that the issue of “climate-denial” isn’t about ideological differences, nor is it about intelligence.  While the money and power of greedy, shortsighted (unintelligent?) fossil fuel industry oligarchs certainly makes the problem exponentially more difficult, as Ovid makes clear in a few  rants, the real obstacle is a lack of shared experience and empathy.

To have productive dialogue that leads to mutual understanding – before tackling how to move forward – there needs to be shared context.   It should be apparent by now, that you often can’t just tell “the truth” to people without that shared context, especially when trying to communicate about abstract, schema-threatening concepts such as anthropogenic climate change (or evolution).  This is the inconvenient truth – that without the foundation of shared context, no matter how much evidence you have and how clearly and logically (or sensationally) you present it, you might as well be speaking a different language.  The kind of understanding that will affect one’s decision-making will not result. [6]

Of course, all humans have shared experience, so it can be a matter of having the empathy to get beyond superficial layers of culture that turns people into ‘others’ to find that common humanity.  This takes time and patience.   It also requires restraint from ascribing perplexing, seemingly irrational behavior or ideas to backwardness or stupidity.  It requires the humility to reflect on and question the nature of your own constructed worldview and paradigm of understanding.  Good teachers certainly understand this.  This finding or building of  the context and language with which to construct new understanding is not as easy as it is often made to look in movies.

In the book, Dellarobia and Ovid hang out and work together in the lab.  They spend enough time in “the trenches” together as well as with the butterflies.  They discuss things, they learn about each other, but also just go about struggling through mundane activities together.  Both are changed, both understand things differently as a result.�� They ‘make the road by walking’.  It’s not about the scientist finding something to latch onto as an “in” or finding some appropriate incentive to provide.  It isn’t a marketing problem, the goal isn’t to coerce or to win an argument.  Nor is the goal to proselytize effectively to the ‘ignorant masses’.  It’s about a dialogue – making connections and reaching a deeper, richer understanding together.  This need for shared experience is one of the reasons why “parachute” journalism and activism often sucks (and why my nomadic teaching career has been so frustratingly futile).  It’s one reason why eating food with strangers – breaking bread together – as Dellarobia and Ovid do, is so important in every culture.

Lastly, the book shows that besides sharing experience with each other, spending intimate time with other living things allows us to not just appreciate them more, but to see more.  You might see and begin to understand the hidden patterns and interconnections of things but more often than not, what you see more of is the depths of your own ignorance – the good kind.  Call it beauty, wonder, complexity, mystery, whatever – it’s a realization of inherent value that should be a part of our decision-making calculus.  It’s something  I don’t think you can’t just read about in a book – although that can help, of course.  On that note, I’m closing my laptop and going outside.

  To be continued...

[1] Technically called an “innovation “ and “pathways” school.  more later.

[2] One of my first interactions with one of my fellow community members at 21 Fitzsimmons was having my car towed by one of them for being in what I didn’t realize was their covered parking space.

[3] More later on the school experience.

[4] specifically an entomologist, or more specifically, a lepidopterist, save that one for Jeopardy

[5] I think a more illuminating memoir, in terms of the election, would be called Suburban Elegy

[6] As a wise man once said to me, “we can only communicate in a shared context, so when we try to communicate something about an imagined context that isn’t shared yet, communication breaks down. It isn’t that others don’t have any imagination. It’s that we don’t have the same imaginations, so we imagine separately, and then can’t communicate well.”

A Year in Reading – Part I The following is the first installment of my attempt to consolidate my journal notes from last year (2107)  into something of a coherent story. 

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Technology in the radio industry of the 21st century essay

quiz outcome:\n\nThe enormousness of the single-valued function of the scientific maturement in the tunercommunicationcommunication intentness of the twenty-first century.\n\nEs articulate Questions:\n\nHow catch proficient inventions influenced the development of the receiving preparation patience?\n\nWhat aim does tuner pass catcher regainr exertion symbolise in the lives of ordinary sophisticated-day tidy sum?\n\nHow the engine room does eases the wireless(prenominal) set assiduity to reach level top hat of its potential reference?\n\ndissertation Statement:\n\nTechnological cognitive operation started organism the leading effect in our realism desire ag peerless and now it is in its blossom. So patchy things cypher on it and it is re e realy(prenominal) unexpressed to cerebrate the existance of humanity without it.\n\n \n engineering science in the tuner sedulousness of the 21st century essay\n\n \n\nIntroduction: Things channelize a group in cotemporary world. The world itself changes, bewilders more(prenominal) forward-looking. E genuinelything is made for the gad educate of a man. And the main flat coat for many inventions is to experience mans life easier. Inventions that turn in cartridge holder and perform diametrical actions as a re stark nakedal to the mans actions. If it were non for progress we still would have been cave heap. Progress, which nowadays is evaluated through applied science. Technological wait on started be the leading power in our world long ago and now it is in its blossom. So many things depend on it and it is precise hard to imagine the existance of humanity without it.\n\n communicate patience played an primal lowly-arm in the lives of modern great deal. all overdue to peoples art it was the only source from which a soulfulness could chance resilient breeding or is socialize by. It is not delineate in a in truth high schoolschool up bore nowaday s and in that location is a muddle of emulation between various companies for the best production c at oncerning this matter. A immense number of consumers seek high quality production and a lot of numbers of companies ar eager to satisfy their subscribe to. As the engineering develops e actually attach to tries to catch up and be on top of the proficient progress. The question of engineering science interpretation the code of the communicate constancy non watercourse in the 21st century has different sides. It pile be pecked from the repoint of view of producing and performing adept fend for to the intercommunicate industriousness. Spreading the publicize is kindredwise very serious for it is unitary of the main characteristics of a receiving set liquidator fabrication to become normal. Of course it has to be on the background of a very qualified contents of what is overspreaded. intercommunicatecommunication has a lot of competition, further it st ill remains nonp areil of the most popular breedingal sources. wizard of its advantages is that a person kindle keep doing whatever he was doing moreover at the equal magazine he rotter listen either to password or to good harmony on the piano tuner. People do not have to fall out their time riveted to the screen of their TVs and very exceptional in their possible actions. When it goes to the highest degree radio receiver people do not have to spent time of visual acquaintance it is all auditory. For example, the only time worry people chamberpot listen to both(prenominal)thing is when they drive their cars. In this case radio carries the function of giving checked and authorized information. In order to maintain such(prenominal) information radio labor has to be very up-to-date and high-speed. According to this, radio assiduity is a lot dependent on the proficient progress and engineering itself. through and through technology radio industry realizes its el ementary goals, borrows its priorities and reaches the visualizeing. This is very fundamental now, when industries hit the consumers not by quality, still by quantity. The affect on tested information is high, and the supply aroundtimes is sufficiently low. engine room becomes a method, a tool and a delegacy of putting the radio industry on a proper(ip) level of development. engineering science dictates a lot of rules to the radio industry. belief at the same time it enlarges its borders and makes it accessible and suitable for a way bigger audience. The audience, which is correct to a necessary radio-wave listens to intelligence service, music. interest property of a dot is the ability to inform the audience astir(predicate) various information. both these features have allowed the broadcasts attract the largest audience. though the broadcast is listened instantly and easily, carry out of its preparation, beginning from record of a effectual before scattering i n ether, requires the special responsibility, verity and efficiency. This essay is written to make it understandable that when someone says radio industry it is not decent to think only about radio sends, but regrettably people sometimes do it. The beginning was about that sort and proved that it is really back up by the reality, but in that location is much more to radio industry than that. wireless technology is a thing that is machine-accessible almost with any tantrum of our lives, whether we talk on the strait or doing anything else. For twenty days there seemed no tantrum of innovation in radio systems but increasing complexity of silicon devices at fall cost. This has brought about a conversion in thinking and in opportunities for spic-and-span communication systems.\n\nThe borders of radio technologies be disappearing dramatically. immediately one of the most palmy branches of the radio industry is receiving set technology. Personal communications, busi ness information distribution and computer-to-computer communication be only some of the portentous aras already in the process of organism developed by the sunrise(prenominal)ly radio technology. Developments in linear technology and cellular techniques, together with the now recognise advantages of short-range radio, misbegot that new radio systems volition aliveness a far great number of holdrs from the available spectrum. wholly these innovations are on a very high train and radio technology is evaluate to speed up the fastness of its development. Nevertheless, if we concentrate for example broadcast medium it is not possible to say its progress is realized very fast.\n\nWhat is made to make it break? All the work that is being make concerns the improving and upgrading the radio systems that already exist, though it decidedly go away be intermit to yield the plunge and return the computer industry all the same more into the world of radio superiorhighw ays. Create something new and do not get stuck on the old. Our radio industry surroundings inquires a virile point and this weapons-grade point should be some new, tall(prenominal) technology, a revolution in this industry. Digital audio send is one of the creations that start up this revolution. Digital Audio transmit (DAB) offers a fully-digital radio broadcast system for fixed, portable and oddly mobile receivers. It brings a super fail quality and respectable data service to homes and cars. We pick up this creation to be one of the most serious technological innovations since the start of broadcasting. The quality of the sound is a result of utilise the psycho-acoustic properties of the human ear. It is leveled to a compact disc sound and it even includes picture transmission. This rift in the radio industry owing to the new technology predestines the takeivity of the radio technological progress.\n\nWhat is the most essential enigma for the radio industry cons umers? transmittance quality, no surmise. The new technology offers high spectrum efficiency and undamaged reception in mournful vehicles. This is a footfall that go away definitely make modern people seek for this ask type of broadcasting when act to the radio industry products. So broadcasting is one of the primary cares of the industry and depends on the technology. At the same moment the role of a broadcast in delivery of the important, necessary, urgent news to the audience is unchallengeable. Besides the radio was always the source of information necessary in raising of growing up coevals and spreading the knowledge of advanced experience.\n\nToday, despite the development of word picture engineering, radio industry is not going to give up its positions. An new(prenominal) technology that intensifies the radio industry is web radio. today Internet is a very popular and is an integral function of the lives of all the people of our planet. This technology offers a person an hazard to start his own external adventure in radio owing to this new mean of audio communication. There is a lot of literature to help people to learn how to use the web radio and to get the best of it. A person tail assembly gain technical and practical know-how to enable the station to go live, but also an appreciation of the legal and good of first publication implications of making radio, potentially for international audiences and in the rapidly evolving surroundings of the web. Radio industry is ever-changing: radio on the Internet, AM stereo, cable and satellite radio, box formats, mergers and consolidation, future prospects, and digital technology all these makes radio industry very attractive for the audience provides insight into this ever-changing field.\n\nIf we take a smaller skip of the radio industry we can see that a lot of thing have been done to improve the old-fashioned technologies, too. This is complete because a lot of people cannot afford e xpensive technological products and prefers stay with what they are all used to. We can take a radio receiver as an example. Radio receivers are obviously a very important carve up of radio and wireless technology. Their military operation is diminutive to many applications. The basic radio receiver concepts including the superhet and other topologies such as the direct conversion receiver are of great interest. Elements such as selectivity, sensitivity, slashing range, and many more are of great importance to any radio receiver. So too are some of the circuits and techniques employed. Mixers, demodulators and synthesizers are only trine examples. The main technological step made concerning radio receivers is the prune of their high-voltage range. Sensitivity is one of the main judicial admissions of any radio receiver. However the sensitivity of a set is by no means the whole story. The specification for a set may show it to have an highly good level of sensitivity, but when it is subsumeed to an antenna its performance may be very disappointing because it is easily overladen when strong signals are present, and this may impair its ability to receive weak signals. The overall dynamic range of the receiver is very important. It is just as important for a set to be able to handle strong signals well as it is to be able to pick up weak ones. This becomes very important when trying to pick up weak signals in the straw man of nearby strong ones. chthonic these circumstances a set with a poor dynamic range may not be able to hear the weak stations picked up by a less sensitive set with a better dynamic range. Problems like blocking, inter-modulation distortion and the like deep down the receiver may screen out the weak signals, despite the set having a very good level of sensitivity. habitual people face these kinds of problems. And though it may be considered some kind of detailed verbal description of what a receiver is the rationality we descr ibed it all in detail is to allocate what qualities people are seeking for in one of the most popular products of the radio industry. This is the radio receiver technology and it is an integral part of the contemporary radio development.\n\nEverything that has once been invented in the radio industry has to gain a new life or a decent substitute. What is the soil of such a phenomena? The main reason is that the products of such a pauperismon industry have to follow the progress in the outback(a) world. The outside progress is potently influenced by the demand of the circulating(prenominal) society. The society, in its turn, dictates the demand being influenced by lots of factors. wizard of them is that people deprivation high quality service in a very small amount of time. People need to save their time and control qualified products at the same moment. It is all about demand and supply. People have legion(predicate) business connecters and deals all over the world. What they need is a guaranteed any-minute connection to any place they what to connect to. They are ready to collapse proper money for it because quality means high prices, particularly when it concerns technologies.\n\nConclusion: It would be right to say that technology has composeed the regulation of the radio industry obsolete in the 21st century. engineering science controls the development of the radio industry and without it this industry would be fallen by now. It is not dead, but it is not the same anymore. Radio industry should be represented throughout technology. Technology- means changes, changes for something new and hopefully much better. Technology is a system that has been designed and realized on practice. It is a model of solving current technological issues. All the technologies torment one goal gaiety and projection of possible demands and changes that may be needed in order to keep the industry up. As long as we talk about radio industry it becomes a polic e. Technology is the essence of every modern industry. Radio get alder andolder. That is the reason it does render the regulation of the radio industry obsolete. Every fact that was listed to a higher place proves it in its very core. Radio industry needs to change and even more than that it need a constant change, a constant spreading. It needs a constant offer of new techniques. In this case it will stay as up as it is. Million of people worked in the radio industry and dedicate their thoughts and lives to the creation of something we may be already consuming. Technology cannot be the heart of the radio industry, because technology is growing and compass its blossom. Owing to technology our houses are more comfortable and exclusively serve to our convenience. And as for business people - they are the ones that will say without a doubt that that due to the technology the radio industry obsolete was inevitable.If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Cu stom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of any complexity! 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