Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McDonald has seen enough computer-related distress in the past two years to design psychological tests to sell to companies that want to spot victims of the new ailment. According to McDonald, the sufferers are trying to keep up with machines that never sleep and never deviate from perfect linear logic. "Since human relations are neither linear nor logical," he says, "they grow increasingly isolated from their families and the whole feeling world...
Western Electric leads in developing so-called linear chips, including one that enables computers to imitate the human voice...
...attaché cases-even in the palm of the hand. Four of the new machines were Osborne imitations featuring built-in video, detachable typewriterlike keyboards and luggage-type carrying handles. While several models improved on the Osborne's eye-straining 5-in. screen, only one-manufactured by Non-Linear Systems Inc. in Solana Beach, Calif., and sold by Kay Computers-matched its price, $1,795. Osborne still retains the distinction of having produced the Volkswagen of computers...
...hardly matters that Diva's plot components do not parse. The best thrillers rarely traffic in linear common sense; nobody, including Raymond Chandler, ever figured out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep. But they did evoke a world so cohesively ominous that when life and death eyeballed each other at the denouement, it mattered which one blinked first. No such laws operate in Diva. In an early scene, we see a harried woman trudging barefoot through a Metro station; she recognizes two men-a skinheaded punk and a swarthy rake-and smiles enigmatically as they pursue...
...almost an industry, a large and well-organized effort to explain what really happened. The industry's headquarters is at Hyde Park, the first of the great presidential libraries, where more than 150 separate collections of New Deal documents and memoirs are measured not in pages but in linear feet. (One linear foot represents approximately 2,000 pages, and Roosevelt's presidential papers alone extend to 2,076 linear feet...