I disagree that the book is beautifully written.
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I will agree that the depth of information is terrific. This is the first biography I've read that wasn't assigned in a class. A fascinating story. Definately see the movie. If not for the Nash story, but to understand a glimpse of what it might be like to have schizophrenea(sp?).
My disagreement in the book being written well stems from the constant re-referencing the author uses. I suppose if I was ten and needed to be reminded of what was stated previously and in what time frame, I could forgive the writing style. But, this is done constantly. I just hope it was the editor trying to be helpful. The style is so irritating, that I had to put it down. Fortunately for the author, I wanted to learn more about Nash and I kept picking it back up. Writing style aside, I really am impressed with the information she was able to put together about this amazing character.
Regarding the movie, Hollywood did a great job of putting together an enjoyable film. It should serve to peak viewers' interest learning more about such an interesting mathematician.
There was an interview with the author on Fresh Air via NPR a couple years ago and a couple other shows just recently. You should be able to find more easy information listenting to some of the streams at npr.org.
Put your ring on 3.5 and carry it with you. You should be the only one that needs do use it anyway. Make a copy of the 3.5, fold it up and put it in a Hide-A-Key and stick it under your fender. I'll be by later to hardware/software hack the info from the mangled media with my Aiwa PCP(personal cassette player); once it's kludged into my old C=64 of course.
How can those bone heads expect anyone to upgrade to any of those broken browsers mentioned. I have to use NS4.7 because it seems to be the only one that works well enough for everything. I use is exclusively to surf and do serious work. I only use IE when I have to access a page that requires it's newer HTML rendering functions. IE5.x breaks (Crashes irrecoverably) in less than an hour if you open a new window as a child process. You have to open completely independet parents, and then sometimes the child processes open blank and don't recover without closing the instance of that parent and starting a new one! NS6 is better (in that respect only), but there are all kinds of key combos that still don't work, it's slower than two Christmases from now, and it's choc full o' crap hardly anyone needs. Even the mail manager works less well than in 4.x. If I used the mouse for everything I do, I'd still be at work right now. AOL bites and keeps on biting. At least Mozilla cuts some of the clutter.
When is AOL gonna pull their craniums out of their anusess and not release broken packages (NS6). What was all that pre release junk? Just because Microsmurf got IE5.x out first doesn't mean you should send out junk. I doubt Mozilla would withold any of their beta feedback. It's a good thing they (AOL) farmed out their own browser to Microsmurfs all that time so they could demand completeness and reliability. Maybe one day they will demand the same from their own people.
IE5 seems to be able to handle the computer keyboard, invented in the early 40's if my history is correct. Surely someone (or maybe two of them) at AOL could put that together and at least kludge it onto NS6. IE5.5 and NS6 are supposedly super XMLed out their respective wazoos, so you'd think most gadgets therin should work. Heck, if my servers crashed as much as Windows or IE5.x, (insert MS product here) I'd quit the computer industry completely or reinvent computer indrustry reliability myself.
I don't mind when Source Forge code breaks, it's not supposed to be perfect. It's even entertaining to try and find the bugs. But these multiBILLION dollar companies can't do better than all the freeware do gooders? Come on man! No wonder MS sees open source as a threat. Open source does a better quality and more reliable job.
The surfer at home or work that uses these products every day just sees broken features. So what that it's free code. The free biscotti samples at Starbuck's better damn well be as good as the whole one I buy, or there's will be no subsequent sale.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
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I will agree that the depth of information is terrific. This is the first biography I've read that wasn't assigned in a class. A fascinating story. Definately see the movie. If not for the Nash story, but to understand a glimpse of what it might be like to have schizophrenea(sp?).
My disagreement in the book being written well stems from the constant re-referencing the author uses. I suppose if I was ten and needed to be reminded of what was stated previously and in what time frame, I could forgive the writing style. But, this is done constantly. I just hope it was the editor trying to be helpful. The style is so irritating, that I had to put it down. Fortunately for the author, I wanted to learn more about Nash and I kept picking it back up. Writing style aside, I really am impressed with the information she was able to put together about this amazing character.
Regarding the movie, Hollywood did a great job of putting together an enjoyable film. It should serve to peak viewers' interest learning more about such an interesting mathematician.
There was an interview with the author on Fresh Air via NPR a couple years ago and a couple other shows just recently. You should be able to find more easy information listenting to some of the streams at npr.org.
Smart move for AOL. I wonder if Microsoft has made an offer.
Very bad for RedHat users. I will no longer donate my dollars to RedHat if AOL buys them. I see enough advertising without AOL being on my desktop.
Put your ring on 3.5 and carry it with you. You should be the only one that needs do use it anyway. Make a copy of the 3.5, fold it up and put it in a Hide-A-Key and stick it under your fender. I'll be by later to hardware/software hack the info from the mangled media with my Aiwa PCP(personal cassette player); once it's kludged into my old C=64 of course.
How can those bone heads expect anyone to upgrade to any of those broken browsers mentioned. I have to use NS4.7 because it seems to be the only one that works well enough for everything. I use is exclusively to surf and do serious work. I only use IE when I have to access a page that requires it's newer HTML rendering functions. IE5.x breaks (Crashes irrecoverably) in less than an hour if you open a new window as a child process. You have to open completely independet parents, and then sometimes the child processes open blank and don't recover without closing the instance of that parent and starting a new one! NS6 is better (in that respect only), but there are all kinds of key combos that still don't work, it's slower than two Christmases from now, and it's choc full o' crap hardly anyone needs. Even the mail manager works less well than in 4.x. If I used the mouse for everything I do, I'd still be at work right now. AOL bites and keeps on biting. At least Mozilla cuts some of the clutter.
When is AOL gonna pull their craniums out of their anusess and not release broken packages (NS6). What was all that pre release junk? Just because Microsmurf got IE5.x out first doesn't mean you should send out junk. I doubt Mozilla would withold any of their beta feedback. It's a good thing they (AOL) farmed out their own browser to Microsmurfs all that time so they could demand completeness and reliability. Maybe one day they will demand the same from their own people.
IE5 seems to be able to handle the computer keyboard, invented in the early 40's if my history is correct. Surely someone (or maybe two of them) at AOL could put that together and at least kludge it onto NS6. IE5.5 and NS6 are supposedly super XMLed out their respective wazoos, so you'd think most gadgets therin should work. Heck, if my servers crashed as much as Windows or IE5.x, (insert MS product here) I'd quit the computer industry completely or reinvent computer indrustry reliability myself.
I don't mind when Source Forge code breaks, it's not supposed to be perfect. It's even entertaining to try and find the bugs. But these multiBILLION dollar companies can't do better than all the freeware do gooders? Come on man! No wonder MS sees open source as a threat. Open source does a better quality and more reliable job.
The surfer at home or work that uses these products every day just sees broken features. So what that it's free code. The free biscotti samples at Starbuck's better damn well be as good as the whole one I buy, or there's will be no subsequent sale.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!