What's worse is how woefully under-prepared you'll be if you use ...
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This is a "book" made out of an online article or class. It has links in the text for goodness sake (eg. click "here"). What's worse is how woefully under-prepared you'll be if you use this "book". It doesn't cover almost two thirds of the exam. And it's "practice test" is a complete joke. It's riddled with errors.

I was excited when I first received it. It had a guarantee and everything. Then I started to read it and immediately bought another book. Then I finished reading it (it's only 140 pages) and was relieved that I purchased another book. Do yourself a favor and do not buy this. It's absolutely terrible.

And for those that care, I bought McGraw Hill's Pharmacy Technician Exam by Dreiling, Malacos, Cannon, and Schmidt. It's night and day how much better this book is. It goes through every topic on the test with individual chapter reviews and has four practice tests that are actually tough. And considering you'll need a score of 1400 out of 1600 to pass, that's exactly how it should be.
3157582
This is a "getting started" guide, not a proper book thoroughly documenting a technology. And any time you need to go off the beaten path, this book leaves you high and dry. The chapter on testing contains instructions that can actually prevent your application from running correctly if your test configuration class is in a package with the same name as the application class - which, given typical conventions, is not unlikely.

The official reference documentation is much more thorough and instructive, not to mention free. You're better of just using that.
1175032
When this product arrived have the bits were strewn out of their slots  I had to guess which slots to put them in because there are no markings on the bits..  It took quite an effort to get them dislodged from under the tracks and into the  proper slots.  The basic construction of the box and slots is extremely poor.  Emphasis on extremely poor.  Everything is just popped into place without any real solid construction allowing all the parts to just fall out.  The tweezers accompanying this kit is basically useless for pulling bits out of the ratchet.
There is a chart on the back which tells you with symbols letters and numbers what the bits are but unless you are privy to the secret code of these numbers and letters and symbols is virtually indecipherable.  There needs to be a clear well-defined sheet of information accompanying this kit telling neophytes just what those letters and numbers mean.  Otherwise it's just a bunch of nonsense.
Oh and of course it is made in China - of  course.
yes I agree with those who got  bit [using all the way into handle - lucky I have locking forceps or I'd never have gotten it out - my suggestion is to always use extension.  I reduced it by one star.

Go to try this out see how it works in practice otherwise I'll just send it back.  Luckily it is only 10 bucks which is not bad.
2039742
even if you know the system fairly well, you never win with this product!-it's hard to learn when you never win???
4055192
This thermostat shows all of the signs of having been created by pretty good engineers and horribly incompetent product managers. Even if you follow every single step provided in the Quick Start Guide, you probably won't get the thermostat to power up. Without the help of my fellow reviewers here on Amazon, you will not be able to get the wireless connection and registration to work. Period. I don't believe they did much usability testing for the installation process of this product. Really, it's that bad.

I spent four hours last night, up and down from the attic and fiddling with wires until my fingers bled. I gave up and reinstalled my old thermostat so that we wouldn't freeze overnight. Reading the reviews here, I learned the following bits of guidance that you should follow as well:

(1) You absolutely need the C wire. There are no alternate wiring plans that will help you avoid this. You must connect the Common 24V wire, usually an unused wire in the bundled cable, from your furnace controller board to the thermostat. You can connect multiple wires to each contact on the furnace controller board. In fact, you'll have to do this with the C wire if you already have an air conditioner installed. Once you connect the C wire, the thermostat will have power.

(2) You need to make the base plate of the thermostat absolutely flush with the wall. I suggest countersinking the drywall anchors because the back of the base plate does not accommodate the 3mm protrusion of the anchors, and your thermostat will be rocking and wobbling all over. Screw it down tightly.

(3) Set the date and time as soon as the thermostat powers up. You'll get into trouble and have to reset the wireless settings device if you don't do this first. You just don't want to go there.

(4) The wireless connectivity setup is a tightrope walk, juggling burning torches and bowling ball. Read the advice here and watch the ENTIRE video on the Honeywell site before you try to do it. You will fail miserably if you try to follow along, step by step, because you will lose access to the video instructions along the way. You'll need to set your router to WPA2-only security and heed the warnings here about network naming. Your thermostat will time-out if you haven't mastered the process as well as the engineers who built the device. You'll need to pop it back off the wall, hold it for a minute, and then reattach to the base plate to get your web browser to recognize it. If you make any mistakes along the way, you will pay dearly. You really need to know exactly what you're doing so that you can make the right responses at the right times.

Once you're installed, connected, and registered, you can start to get into the scheduling process. So far, that's been unavailable to me, but I've learned a lot about the inner workings of the Honeywell engineers' minds. With patience and a healthy dose of web research, I think I'll get scheduling to work soon. Best of luck!
2139008
I was so excited to get this book, but found it is a nightmare to read, even for me, an RN.  It's not easy to understand and if you need to actually figure out what to do for emergency surgery you won't be able to find it in this jumbled book.  Maybe it was made for a surgeon who already knows what to do.  It has details about anatomy, but no actual step by step instructions for quick reference in an emergency. I guess if you have a month to study this book, you could figure out what to do. I'll be donating this one.
1237847
This is an edited comment. I would now give this product 3 stars, but only 3 because it is not easy to use. It all centers on gross deficiencies in the manual and online "how to" information although there may also be performance issues over the long haul.
1. The manual is worst I've seen from an English-speaking company, it is  unbelieveable how little useful information it communicates. Garmin routinely uses initials as if everyone knows that they mean. It uses an accronym (initials) on a screen with no definition anywhere on the device. When you go to the manual the initials are in the index but the pages referenced don't even use the initials, or define them or give a clear indication to a non-techie or newbie of what they're talking about. You have to search online to find out what the initials stand for.

Another example is setting the Garmin 360 to announce street names. Yes, the Garmin 360 can announce street names but good luck figuring out how to do it because their manual and online support sucks. How to set the Garmin 360 to announce street names (posted so you don't have to wait 17 minutes to get through to customer support): You control this through the LANGUAGE setting. You usually don't see the correct option when you do set up because what comes up first is American English -- so you choose it and don't scroll down or press options again so you don't discover there are additional American English options, two of which will give you spoken street names. To fix this after setup and have spoken street names you need to touch the little wrench on the right side of the main page, then on the next screen go to system (looks like gears). On the next screen, the second line has a picture of lips and a line showing the language. Touch the line across from the lips. Your language options will include American English and among the sub-options will be "American English Jack (TTS)" and "American English Jill (TTS)". If you choose the first option a male voice will tell you street names when you need to turn. If you choose "American English Jill (TTS)" a female voice will tell you street names.

TTS means "Text To Speech". Remember what I said about the manual and using initials as if everyone knows what they mean? This is another example of that problem. Three tech-saavy people tried to figure this out before we called Garmin and sat on hold for 17 minutes. It was a quick fix from a nice tech guy once we got thru but this is a simple question that should have been answered by their manual. It wasn't. Manuals are written for people who don't know the product, not to inspire/market those who are into the product or field.

2. Concern: it thinks I'm on the city streets below interstate flyovers as I go over and tries to re-route me; this could be a serious performance issue but I need more time with the unit to know.

3. Concern: as some others have noted it flipped to an old destination while I was driving and began rerouting me there in an unfamiliar city; I suspect a touchpad issue but this is something to watch.

4. the technology is old: the antenna is old tech, it flips up.

5. Plus: the windshild and dash attachments are good and beat the competition.

Once the learning curve is tolerated and the unit is figured out, it seems to do the job. I think it will be fine but they don't do themselves a favor by educating their customer on how to use the product. Most negative reviews are from people who have encountered problems I've also encountered and who would be happier with a decent manual.
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The problem with this product, is that if you a regular consumer trying to replace your own screen, then you probably (like I do) lack the skills and tools to use it effectively. The problem i had is that this does not have the electronic leads pre-installed, so you will have to carefully peel back the *extremely small* metal contact strip from your broken unit, and then try like hell to align them on this product. I tried for HOURS to make this happen. If you are watching a video on youtube and it looks pretty easy - then please keep in mind those videos are not using this product. Those videos use a digitizer screen that already has the leads connected, this product does not. If you are not 100% sure what you need, and/or you have never done this repair before, then do not buy this product.
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I hate to give 2 stars to this book as it does contain some useful material. I badly wanted to make a zombie game and was attracted instantly to this book because that's what it attempts to do. But here are the biggest problems:

1. First, downloading the book files gave me a headache as Packt website was quite buggy. I had forgotten my password, and instead of resetting it, it forced me to create a new account, but would not let me use my old email id. I had to get around by using a different email and download it.

2. There are many Unity books that mostly just ask you to "do this do that" without enough explanation - and this book is no exception. Unless you are experienced in Unity, you will likely get very confused with the amount of "organization" the initial chapters try to do, asking you to drag around assets into various folders. To make it worse, the book files don't exactly match what the chapters say. Right in the first chapter, you will be introduced to the messy set of folders all with the ugly PACKT_ prefix. Despite following the text to the last word, redoing the entire thing thrice after deleting everything, I still had inconsistencies between the book and my project. I was completely lost with multiple material folders, multiple places to look for the same things. I wish the author used a simpler organization that makes the reader feel like it is a game THEY are making with his guidance, than having to prefix every single thing with "packt" - it felt like I was sitting inside somebody's house as a guest and not my own.

3. Oh God, that chapter 3! Consider yourself lucky if you get past that nightmare. Things just don't work the way the author says and you will find yourself in deep mess quickly if you aren't familiar with Unity. My first person character was running around without his arms sticking out as they were supposed to -- and I was seeing the arms' shadow on the floor in one particular direction. Dear author, when you make a terrible mess of an early chapter like this, the most common human instinct would be to close it off and move on to another book, for the fear of not being able to get through any chapter that follows.

I have been scouring through many Unity books in the last few weeks and the most beginner friendly one I found so far is Sams Teach Yourself in 24 hours (2nd edition).  I am no in way associated with the authors or publisher - this is just my opinion after trying out various books.
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This book's a disaster - the material is presented in a disorganized manner; there are several errors (in grammar, in spelling, in usage, and even in class - Arabic or peasanty words that you won't often come across) in the dialogues and some in the answers; it's much harder to follow than the earlier edition written by different authors; it assumes a little background info on Turkish, which it shouldn't; and, above all, its back cover, claiming "jargon-free grammar notes," is an out-and-out lie: you'll have to pore through ablative cases, converbs, and relative clauses to get to the good stuff.
BUT - the good stuff is fantastic.  The book fills a much-needed space in your studies. Other books are too didactic (such as the In Three Months series); others are too basic (the Teach Yourself book), and then you're left on your own.  This book is hefty enough, intermediate enough, and colloquial enough to be of help when you're at the position of knowing the basics but not ready yet to read a Turkish newspaper and be on your own.  The example sentences are superb and give you much practice in dealing with the topics so poorly presented.  Probably the best way to approach it is to get another book first, then to get this book, skip the grammatical expositions, and to go over the sample sentences and exercises with a spouse or friend, who can help give other contexts in which they're used, and even correct some of the errors.
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I don't think I've ever been so disenchanted with a product right out of the box. I honestly can't believe anyone would give this product more than a couple of stars.

The flint popped out of the casing on the very first try. Why? Because all that's holding it in is the tension of the flimsy plastic it's made out of and a little dollop of glue, the latter of which did absolutely nothing to keep the flint in place.

Preppers love this, but if I were preparing for the worst I sure wouldn't be relying on cheap plastic and bad glue, which is what you rely on when you rely on this product.
1247910
Actually, I haven't used it yet, as I fear having a hard time loading and packing it upon getting  ready for my return trip home.
3516808
If you are preparing for touring, you are surely familiar with the most elementary, basic elements of fitness and cycling that this book covers.  The content is superficial at best and often appears hastily prepared.  I bought this book in the morning at a local bookstore and returned it in the afternoon, it's simply that terrible.
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How tech savvy are you? How frustrated do you get with current technology? Even if you think you are best buddies with technology, I doubt you are prepared for the iFit. I'm a young guy. I have my degree in Computer Science. I admit that absolutely love technology. It's what I do for a living, and it's what I do for fun. All of my friends and family come to my with their IT questions and needs. With that, I hate the iFit. Their customer service and knowledgebase is horrible. I find it way too confusing. Let this review be a warning for anyone that is interested in this product. You will rue the day when you ever have to sync it (ie: daylight savings). I give up! This thing is going in my junk drawer... my iPhone 6 keeps track of everything now anyways.
3958780
Why spend more when you've got all you need right in front of you.

These folks that cant get them on properly are inept.

Yeah I said it.
2121071
Trying to configure a new Ipod is a formidable experience.
There are no set up instructions with the unit and there are a lot of questions to be answered before you can finally use this thing. If you don't write down this stuff it's hopeless. I tried to verify my logon a few times and it just keeps me going in circles. Now I have an appointment with an Apple tech to call back.
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Avoid this like Aids, unless you're a dummy.  The zippers peel right open at the seam, they don't hold. Trash-heap.