I think "he never read a book" means he never read paper books.
Some programs are going that way now.
All the texts are in ebook form and you are required to have a laptop **OR** a
tablet to take the course.
My example is from Algonquin, but I think some universities are doing that, too.
Rob
On 16/12/2013, Stephen Gregory wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Rick Leir wrote:
>
>> The OP RDay asked if we value books. A recent Eng grad from Carleton
>> (Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering) told me that he
>> never read a book. This is a big change since I was in
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Rick Leir wrote:
> The OP RDay asked if we value books. A recent Eng grad from Carleton
> (Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering) told me that he
> never read a book. This is a big change since I was in university.
>
How is that even possible? Ho
From: "Michael P. Soulier" To: Bill
Strosberg Cc: linux@lists.oclug.on.ca Subject: Re:
[OCLUG-Tech] books Message-ID: <20131213180900.gh4...@digitaltorque.ca>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On 13/12/13 Bill Strosberg
said:
Don't get me wrong, I
On 13/12/13 Bill Strosberg said:
> Now I sound like an elderly curmudgeon.
Pretty much. :)
Don't get me wrong, I love books. But, consider this:
- ebooks from O'Reilly are available in any format I care about
- epub is just zipped html and css, it doesn't get any more portable
- books on co
Bill Strosberg wrote:
> Although the young folks will take exception to this,
Yes, the young folks, so reliably uniform in opinion. I have friends
of about my age [21 years] who much prefer dead trees.
> eBooks are a poor, flawed approximation of the dead tree versions,
Dead tree books and eBoo
All:
I've been at this so long that eBooks weren't even a gleam in Tim
O'Reilly's eye when I started. I have a pretty complete "zoo" of
O'Reilly books on my office shelves. I like dead trees for reference.
They run forever without being plugged in. They are available without
connection to
On Dec 12, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Rick Leir wrote:
> Books can if well written summarize a topic and get you started with the most
> useful bits first. By comparison, the internet can be a fire hose.
>
> You can have a peek before you buy if it is in the library. Find out what is
> new at blinkmoni
Books can if well written summarize a topic and get you started with the most
useful bits first. By comparison, the internet can be a fire hose.
You can have a peek before you buy if it is in the library. Find out what is
new at blinkmonitor.com. Some books can have a long waiting list; that is
