You apparently don't live in neighborhoods like ours.
Before I lived here, I'da agreed with you, but I've been "enlightened".
Enjoy whatever little isolated paradise you live in. We gotta get back to dealing with our graffiti and public urination issues, thankyouverymuch.
I get a lot of requests that are essentially requests to simulate a web experience by providing a bunch of screens that users can click through to find the information they want, instead of using traditional (perhaps formerly traditional?) GUI ways of exposing functionality.
Oh gawd, where's my gun? Life's not worth living anymore...
I guess that this is the desktop analog of employing the most efficient time-wasting solution for a problem, just like text-messaging.
No signs of intelligent life here, Captain. Beam me up.
As someone who's been refreshing my electronics knowledge from many moons ago, my vote also goes out for Practical Electronics for Inventors. It's also a huge deal, probably 1/3 the cost of other books, and the breadth of topics is astounding. Pound for pound the best of the few dozen books I've looked through in the last year or two.
For a book that was published in the last 5-10 years, it's amazingly almost free of errors. Not totally free, but remarkable none the less.
This is in stark contrast to one of my favorite uC/electronics books, "123 PIC Microcontroller Experiments for the Evil Genius" which is a near disaster as far as typos are concerned. It's an absolute minefield of errors, both grammar and technical, but I still like it a lot for its content. You absolutely cannot trust it not to use "milli" and "micro" interchangably, for example. There's even one page where they refer to the same LSI part with three different P/Ns (the BOM is different from the text is different from the picture caption). Even a spot where the syntax for a C-language feature (and there aren't many!) is introduced -- incorrectly.
While I haven't been through any of Predko's other books with nearly the same scrutiny, it does seem *very* uncharacteristic of his other numerous, useful books. Don't know whether to blame the author, publisher, or editor. Still a must-have if you're getting your brain PIC-ed from the beginning, and still very useful for other uC platforms.
It's rewarding to know that you're learning enough to find technical errors, but after the first 30 or so, it *does* get a little old. It's truly a test of your understanding...:-|
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You apparently don't live in neighborhoods like ours. Before I lived here, I'da agreed with you, but I've been "enlightened".
Enjoy whatever little isolated paradise you live in. We gotta get back to dealing with our graffiti and public urination issues, thankyouverymuch.
Backup -- not just a good idea, it's the law! No, wait. It's better than the law.
Clearly more money than brains. Those fuckers will never amount to anything.
We'll all be dead before the browser becomes a viable application platform. But thanks for playing!
Agreed. Time for an underwear change.
I get a lot of requests that are essentially requests to simulate a web experience by providing a bunch of screens that users can click through to find the information they want, instead of using traditional (perhaps formerly traditional?) GUI ways of exposing functionality.
Oh gawd, where's my gun? Life's not worth living anymore...
I guess that this is the desktop analog of employing the most efficient time-wasting solution for a problem, just like text-messaging.
No signs of intelligent life here, Captain. Beam me up.
For a book that was published in the last 5-10 years, it's amazingly almost free of errors. Not totally free, but remarkable none the less.
This is in stark contrast to one of my favorite uC/electronics books, "123 PIC Microcontroller Experiments for the Evil Genius" which is a near disaster as far as typos are concerned. It's an absolute minefield of errors, both grammar and technical, but I still like it a lot for its content. You absolutely cannot trust it not to use "milli" and "micro" interchangably, for example. There's even one page where they refer to the same LSI part with three different P/Ns (the BOM is different from the text is different from the picture caption). Even a spot where the syntax for a C-language feature (and there aren't many!) is introduced -- incorrectly.
While I haven't been through any of Predko's other books with nearly the same scrutiny, it does seem *very* uncharacteristic of his other numerous, useful books. Don't know whether to blame the author, publisher, or editor. Still a must-have if you're getting your brain PIC-ed from the beginning, and still very useful for other uC platforms.
It's rewarding to know that you're learning enough to find technical errors, but after the first 30 or so, it *does* get a little old. It's truly a test of your understanding... :-|